Spanish proverbs

Mary Busybody never wants a bad day, and Mary Drone has God to give and bring to her.

Friday pretexts for not fasting (meaning pleas of indisposition for not eating fish.)

The drunkard and the glutton come to poverty, and drowsiness clothes a man with rags.

Whether the pitcher strike the stone, or the stone the pitcher, woe be to the pitcher.

Whether you ignore a pig, or worship that pig from afar, to the pig it's all the same.

Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all, A sting, and honey, and a body small.

The smith's dog sleeps at the noise of the hammer, and wakes at the grinding of teeth.

Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and another white.

If you want to know what a man is really like, notice how he acts when he loses money.

See to it that you have many books and many friends -- but be sure they are good ones.

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