284 Sayings of Spanish Origin
1. "Three Spaniards, four opinions." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
2. "A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
3. "If you want good service, serve yourself." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
4. "Hope deferred makes the heart sick." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
5. "Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
6. "What is much desired is not believed when it comes." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
7. "If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
8. "If you wish good advice, consult an old man." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
9. "A hidden fire is discovered by its smoke." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
10. "If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
11. "Better keep now than seek anon." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
12. "Too much bursts the bag." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
13. "Discretion is a way of hiding what you cannot help." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
14. "Buy from desperate people, and sell to newlyweds." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
15. "Anger is a short madeness." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
16. "A friend in need is a friend indeed." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
17. "The most faithful mirror is an old friend." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
18. "A woman's tears are worth a lot, but cost little." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
19. "God comes to see without ringing the bell." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
20. "Fate sends almonds to toothless people." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
21. "Her father's fortune will make the ugliest girl attractive." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
22. "If I die, I forgive you; if I recover, we shall see." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
23. "A good life is the best sermon." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
24. "A daily guest is a thief in the kitchen." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
25. "Frivolous talk is like shooting without aiming." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
26. "Conscience is what tells you not to do what you have just done." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
27. "Where there is love, there is pain." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
28. "A single occurrence is insufficient to prove a theory or establish a rule." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
29. "Hunger drives the wolf out of the woods." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
30. "To whom you tell your secrets you resign your liberty." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
31. "Hunger sharpens the wit." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
32. "He who would be rich should not collect money, but reduce his needs." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
33. "A woman's advice is of little value, but he who does not take it is a fool." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
34. "I don't care what people say as long as I get what want." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
35. "A woman's place is in the home." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
36. "Go to friends for advice; to women for pity; to strangers for charity; to relatives for nothing." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
37. "When the Spaniard sings he is either stupid or without money." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
38. "If you are not good for yourself, how can you be good for others?" (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
39. "Confide in a woman and a magpie if you want something to be broadcast." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
40. "The best mirror is an old friend." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
41. "Don't refuse a wing to the one who gave you the chicken." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
42. "A rule isn't unfair if it applies to everyone." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
43. "A day without bread lasts long." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
44. "When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
45. "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
46. "He who eats a partridge in his youth will only be left with feathers in his old age." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
47. "Better lose a supper than have a hundred physicians." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
48. "He who talks to a mule is one himself." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
49. "A woman's belly is a garden with many fruits." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
50. "Guests always have nice backs." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
51. "He who has a good looking wife, a castle on the river, or a vineyard on the roadside is never without war." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
52. "Better late than never." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
53. "Halfway is twelve miles when you have fourteen miles to go." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
54. "If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
55. "For a chaste woman God is enough." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
56. "Everyone sees things from his own point of view." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
57. "If you cannot be chaste, be cautious." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
58. "Better to ask the way than to go astray." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
59. "If a person is away, his right is away." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
60. "A rolling stone gathers no moss." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
61. "Beads about the neck, and the devil in the heart." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
62. "Every man is a fool in some man's opinion." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
63. "He who peeps through a hole may see what will vex him." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
64. "God sends cold after clothes." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
65. "Honesty is the best policy." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
66. "Cowards die many times." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
67. "Friendly words gain much and cost nothing." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
68. "What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
69. "Walls have ears." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
70. "He who lives a long life must pass through much evil." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
71. "If you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
72. "He who knows nothing is as blind as him who cannot see." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
73. "Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
74. "We do not know what is good until we have lost it." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
75. "Brain is better than brawn." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
76. "He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
77. "Too many cooks spoil the broth." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
78. "Always be patient with the rich and powerful." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
79. "He who excuses himself accuses himself." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
80. "If you want to marry wisely, marry your equal." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
81. "In the face of love and death, courage is useless." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
82. "Each of us must face our own responsibilities." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
83. "The sap rises in the spring." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
84. "Fear and love never eat from the same plate." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
85. "He that would have a beautiful wife should choose her on a Sunday." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
86. "Do what is right, come what may." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
87. "An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
88. "He who is proud of his sins, sins twice as much." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
89. "Happiness itself does not stay, only moments of happiness do." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
90. "An absent saint gets no candles." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
91. "Bad news flies." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
92. "He to whom God gives no sons, the devil gives nephews." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
93. "Friendless in life, friendless in death." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
94. "Chins without beards deserve no honor." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
95. "Hunger is the best sauce." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
96. "If two doctors visit a sick man, the sexton rings the bells." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
97. "After dinner rest a while, after supper walk a mile." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
98. "April and May make meal for the whole year." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
99. "Where there's smoke, there's fire." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
100. "From the leather of others you can cut long strips." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
101. "Also of hope and aspiration do we live." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
102. "Don't be afraid of a spot that can be removed with water." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
103. "He who denies all confesses all." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
104. "The best or the worst for a man is his wife." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
105. "He who knows how to live, knows enough." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
106. "He who asks the fewest favors is the best received." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
107. "Each person knows where problems lie." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
108. "He who pays the piper calls the tune." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
109. "Honor buys no meat in the market." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
110. "A dog won't bite you if you are carrying a stick." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
111. "A good life, they say, keeps wrinkles at bay." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
112. "Every man for himself and God for us all." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
113. "To deny everything is to confess everything." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
114. "Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is told, yours will be new." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
115. "Home is where the heart is." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
116. "He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
117. "Don't talk too much, because your ignorance is greater than your knowledge." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
118. "Hidden joy is an extinguished candle." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
119. "The wind changes every day, a woman every second." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
120. "Dirty clothes are washed at home." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
121. "He is always right who suspects that he is always wrong." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
122. "If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
123. "If you want to know the value of money, go and borrow some." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
124. "He who goes with wolves learns to howl." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
125. "Health is better than wealth." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
126. "In a choice between bad company and loneliness, the second is preferable." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
127. "All things are easy that are done willingly." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
128. "He who inherits a hill must climb it." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
129. "If you want to be respected, respect yourself." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
130. "An empty stomach will not listen to anything." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
131. "In large rivers one finds big fish but one may also be drowned." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
132. "If you have nothing better to do, go to bed with your own wife." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
133. "Compare your griefs with other men's and they will seem less." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
134. "He who leaves his people will be left by God." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
135. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
136. "Beware of a reconciled friend as of the devil." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
137. "Between two Saturdays happen many marvels." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
138. "Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
139. "Truth will out." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
140. "If you want to sleep well, buy the bed of a bankrupt." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
141. "Who gossips with you will gossip about you." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
142. "If the devil is going to disguise himself, it will be as a monk or a lawyer." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
143. "Eat, drink and be merry (for tomorrow we die)." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
144. "A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
145. "Feed the raven and he'll peck out your eyes." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
146. "If there is still doubt do not accuse." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
147. "Blood boils without fire." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
148. "A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
149. "Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
150. "He who divides gets the worst share." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
151. "From a fallen tree, all make kindling." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
152. "Birth is much, but breeding is more." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
153. "The devil hides behind the cross." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
154. "Truth and oil always come to the surface." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
155. "I wept when I was born and as each day passes I know why." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
156. "However early you get up you cannot hasten the dawn." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
157. "Fools walk in where angels fear to tread." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
158. "He who sows brambles must not go barefoot." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
159. "Between brothers, two witnesses and a notary." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
160. "A young woman is to an old man the horse that he rides to hell." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
161. "At the game's end we shall see who gains." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
162. "Half a loaf is better than no bread." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
163. "He who deals with a blockhead will need a lot of brains." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
164. "After one vice a greater follows." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
165. "If you leave your place, you lose it." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
166. "He who is a Basque, a good Christian and has two mules, needs nothing more." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
167. "Debts are like children, the smaller they are the louder they scream." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
168. "Hell is paved with good intentions." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
169. "If your wife tells you to throw yourself off a cliff, pray to God that it is a low one." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
170. "Beauty and chastity are always quarreling." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
171. "Fine words butter no parsnips." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
172. "The father a saint, the son a sinner." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
173. "I would rather have a donkey that can carry me than a horse that throws me." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
174. "The first one to eat, the last one to work." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
175. "Beauty draws more than oxen." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
176. "Everything in its season, and turnips in Advent." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
177. "Evildoers always think the worst of others." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
178. "For a bad night, a mattress of wine." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
179. "Don't call me a little olive until you've picked me." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
180. "If you live with wolves learn to howl." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
181. "If you have the moon, ignore the stars." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
182. "He who shelters under a tree gets twice as wet." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
183. "If the sky falls, hold up your hands." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
184. "What has been promised, is debt." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
185. "A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
186. "Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
187. "Between the “yes” and “no” of a woman you can't place a pin." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
188. "Trouble will rain on those who are already wet." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
189. "Hunger is good kitchen." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
190. "Curiosity killed the cat." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
191. "How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
192. "Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
193. "Every cask smells of the wine it contains." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
194. "God is a good worker but He loves to be helped." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
195. "Each to his own and God watching over everyone." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
196. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
197. "He who lost his faith, has nothing more to lose." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
198. "Discretion is the better part of courage." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
199. "Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
200. "He who plants the lettuce doesn't always eat the salad." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
201. "Beggars can't be choosers." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
202. "Time doesn't stand still." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
203. "There are no birds in last year's nest." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
204. "He who helps everybody, helps nobody." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
205. "An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
206. "All talk and no action." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
207. "If your roof is made of glass, don't throw stones at your neighbor's house." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
208. "The greatest victory is a bloodless victory." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
209. "Better visit hell in your lifetime than after you're dead." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
210. "A wolf's mourning is the fox's feast." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
211. "You can't please everybody." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
212. "A strong attack is half the battle won." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
213. "Desperation is the mistress of the impossible." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
214. "There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
215. "Don't worry if people call you ordinary, only if you are ordinary." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
216. "Better a quiet death than a public misfortune." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
217. "However bright the sun may shine, leave not your cloak at home." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
218. "If your enemy is up to his waist in water, give him your hand; if the water reaches his shoulders, stand on his head." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
219. "Happiness is never quite perfect. There'll always be some trouble or displeasure." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
220. "As soon as one goes out the window, another comes in the door." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
221. "Habits are first cobwebs, then cables." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
222. "He who wants to bring home the riches of India, he must have them within himself." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
223. "I dance to the tune that is played." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
224. "Dead men have no friends." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
225. "If the doctor is fasting it is bad for the priest." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
226. "Treat the small in the way you would want to be treated by the big." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
227. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
228. "Advise no one to go to war or to marry." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
229. "Faint heart never won fair lady." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
230. "Even the best writer has to erase." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
231. "Ask for too much in order to get enough." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
232. "A soft answer turneth away wrath." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
233. "If there be no remedy, why worry?" (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
234. "Appetite comes with eating." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
235. "Don't mention the hangman's noose in the house of someone who died by it." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
236. "Early flowers give no seed." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
237. "I know they are all honest men, but my cloak is nowhere to be found." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
238. "Great minds think alike." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
239. "Actions speak louder than words." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
240. "Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
241. "Half the truth is often a whole lie." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
242. "He who never has enough, never has anything." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
243. "Idiots can sometimes give good advice." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
244. "Cheat me with the price, but not with the goods I buy." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
245. "Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
246. "The secret of two no further will go; the secret of three a hundred will know." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
247. "He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
248. "He who forgives a thief is a thief himself." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
249. "Honor and money cannot go in the same sack." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
250. "A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
251. "Hell is full of the ungrateful." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
252. "Cheap things cost a lot of money." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
253. "Every dog has its day." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
254. "If you would live in health, grow old early." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
255. "Each person knows where his shoe hurts." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
256. "At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and at eighty nothing." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
257. "If you want to watch, you'd better keep quiet." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
258. "The best word still has to be spoken." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
259. "God delays but doesn't forget." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
260. "The art of doing business lies more in paying than in buying." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
261. "For a good appetite there is no hard bread." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
262. "When one is hungry everything tastes good." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
263. "Dine with arrogance, sleep with shame." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
264. "Elm trees have beautiful branches but hardly ever bear fruit." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
265. "Home is where he hangs his hat." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
266. "Courtesy does not exclude courage." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
267. "Different strokes for different folks." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
268. "Have patience and the mulberry leaf will become satin." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
269. "Time is a great healer." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
270. "Her left hand doesn't know what her right hand is doing." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
271. "Giving alms never lessens the purse." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
272. "Death is the reaper who doesn't take a midday nap." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
273. "Better a good hope than a bad possession." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
274. "The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
275. "Truth is time's daughter." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
276. "He that chastens one chastens twenty." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
277. "You can't escape your destiny." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
278. "He that fights and runs away, lives to fight another day." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
279. "Hope for the best and prepare for the worst." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
280. "If you can't bite, don't show your teeth." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
281. "If you want to be dead, wash your head and go to bed." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
282. "He that would have the fruit must climb the tree." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
283. "Give a thing and take a thing, to wear the devil's gold ring." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
284. "Cow of many, well milked and badly fed." (Spanish Sayings) Click to tweet
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