Spanish Proverb Quotes - Page 2

• Don't count your chickens before they egg.

  Ross O'Donovan

  Eggs, Fables, Chickens

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• Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

  Tim Ward

  Buddhist, Speaking Spanish, Silence

  Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.73, Changemakers Books

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• Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.
  [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]

  George Herbert

  Witness

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• You get what you pay for.

  Gabriel Biel

  Pay, Contradicting, Cradle

  "Expositio Canonis Missae" by Gabriel Biel, Lectio 86, 1576.

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• If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

  Margaret Mahy

  Jobs, Work, Best Effort

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• Strike while the iron is hot.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Iron Will

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Barry Windeatt (2008). “Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation”, p.193, Oxford University Press

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• All is well that ends well

  Emily Rodda

  Wise, Drama, Italian

  Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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• You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ears, Purses, Turnips

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.349

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• 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.

  John Gerard

  Food, Oil, Cooking

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• 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.'

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, People, Degrees

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.55, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Believe, I Believe, Cold

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• 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.

  Tana French

  Believe, Long, Principles

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