Great Throughts Treasury

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Spanish Proverbs

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"More than enough is too much."

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

"Money goes where money is."

"Never give advice unasked."

"Never say die. ."

"Never spend your money before you have it."

"Never too late to do well."

"No mill, no meal."

"Nothing goes on forever."

"No bees, no honey; no work, no money."

"No offense taken when none is meant."

"Of all pains, the greatest pain, is to love, but love in vain."

"No one will notice (in the dark)."

"Nothing has really changed."

"Once a thief, always / ever a thief."

"Old friends and old wine and old gold are best."

"Nothing succeeds like success."

"One enemy is too many; and a hundred friends too few."

"One can never know too much."

"One good forewit is worth two afterwits."

"Out of debt, out of danger."

"Plenty breed pride."

"Possession is nine parts / points / tenths of the law."

"One man's meat is another man's poison / another's poison."

"Problems don't seem so bad if you keep cheerful."

"Patience, time, and money accommodate all things."

"Set a thief to catch a thief."

"Servants make the worst masters."

"Poverty breeds discontent."

"Small choice in rotten apples."

"Six of one and half a dozen of the other."

"The best way to solve a problem is to attack the cause / root of it."

"Take no notice of the stupid things people say."

"The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one."

"Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease."

"Spring is in the air."

"The chickens have come home to roost."

"The darkest hour comes / is past / is that before the dawn."

"The child is the father of the man."

"The devil looks after himself / his own."

"The die is cast."

"The more danger, the more honor."

"The proof of the pudding is in the eating."

"The greatest hate springs from the greatest love."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"The early bird catches the worm."

"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."

"The sap rises in the spring."

"The truth will out."

"The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot."