He who laughs last, laughs best.
— Triple H
Famous Spanish Proverb quotations
The early bird catches the worm.
A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
Give the devil his due.
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
Don't count your chickens before they egg.
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
Strike while the iron is hot.
According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'
Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.
He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.
[Life without a friend is death without a witness.]
Half a loaf is better than none.
Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
You get what you pay for.
Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me.
"Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.