Browse Dozens of Proverbs
MEXICAN
- " A lamp in the street, obscurity at home."
- " A person born to be a flower pot will not go beyond the porch."
- " Conversation is food for the soul."
- " Don't break down, rope; this is the last jerk! "
- " Don't cut your cactus in a neighbor's garden."
- " God does not hear you if you do not speak."
- " He who lives with hope dies happy."
- " Hope dies last of all."
- " In this treacherous world there is neither truth nor lie; everything is like the color of the crystal through which you gaze."
- " In youth we learn, in old age we understand."
- " It's better to be poor, than to live alone."
- " It is not enough to know how to ride you must also know how to fall."
- " Jealous about honor and careless about providing."
- " Let water run that you do not intend to drink."
- " Lions believe that everyone shares their state of mind."
- " Make deaf ears to stupid words."
- " Money is a good servant, but an evil master."
- " Pray indeed, but get to work!"
- " Revenge is a dish that tastes better cold."
- " The brave man lives until the coward wants."
- " The deaf does not listen, but invents well."
- " The devil is wiser not because he's the devil, but because he's old."
- " The good judge starts at home."
- " The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman."
- " The lazy is a brother of the begger."
- " The most desirable woman is always the one who belongs to someone else."
- " The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor, when he has something to eat."
- " The seagull thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift in the air."
- " The sin carries its own penance."
- " There is more time than life."
- " When hunger comes through the door, love jumps out the window."
- " When you see that someone is cutting your neighbor's beard, start wetting yours."
- " You judge the way you live."
- " Youth is a folly; maturity, a struggle; old age a remorse."
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