Spanish proverbs

As for friars, live with them, eat with them, and walk with them; then sell them as they do themselves.

I never was satisfied with ""I will, I will."" One ""take this"" is better than two ""I will give you.""

Go not with every ailment to the doctor, with every plea to the lawyer, or with every thirst to the can.

He who was first an acolyte, and afterwards an abbot or curate, knows what the boys do behind the altar.

He will never worship well the image on the altar who knew it when it was a trunk of wood in the garden.

A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.

He who has a good looking wife, a castle on the river, or a vineyard on the roadside is never without war.

He who has a handsome wife, a castle on the frontier, or a vineyard on the roadside, is never without war.

Spanish is the language of lovers, Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses.

Who lends recovers not; or if he recovers, recovers not all; or if not all, not much; of if much, a mortal enemy.

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