Quotes from Spanish proverb

When three people call you an ass, put on a bridle.

You can't catch trout with dry breeches.

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

From a fallen tree, make kindling.

Every man is the son of his actions.

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.

The belly rules the mind.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

With respect to the gout, the physician is but a lout. (Que ha la gota el medico no vee gota.)

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.

A horse is worth more than riches.

I don't want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap.

Idleness is the mother of vice.

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.

Love is blind but the neighbors are not.

You can have all the rest of the year if you will give me April and May.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Four persons are indispensable to the production of a good salad — a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt, and a madman to stir it all up.

He who has been stung by a scorpion is afraid of its shadow.

Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.

Let papers speak and beards be silent.

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.