Spanish proverbs

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Do you want to see a wolf with young (i.e. an insatiable plunderer)? Marry your daughter.

He who has been first a novice and then an abbot, knows what the boys do behind the altar.

Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for charity and relatives for nothing.

Fresh port and new wine, send a Christian to the churchyard. (Kill a man before his time.)

When a good offer comes for your daughter, don't wait till her father returns from market.

If you have a friend who is a doctor, make your bow and send him to the house of your enemy.

Such awkward things will happen as going into the great square and coming back without ears.

The wolf does that in the course of the week which hinders him from going to mass on Sunday.

Since you have scolding me, I have counted a hundred and twenty holes in that nutmeg grater.

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