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Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.
Sep 29, 2025
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.
He who laughs last, laughs best.
He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
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.
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.
Too many cooks spoil the broth
You get what you pay for.
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
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.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
The early bird catches the worm.
Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are
Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.
A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Don't count your chickens before they egg.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Give the devil his due.
actions speak louder than words
Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.
All's well that ends well.
All is well that ends well
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