298 Mexican Proverbs / Page 11
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The bowman who is a bad marksman has a lie ready.202.
The brave man lives until the coward wants.203.
The brave one lives as long as the cowards lets him.204.
The closed mouth doesn't catch any flies.205.
The clown is best in his own country, and the gentleman anywhere.206.
The crime accuses itself.207.
The dead to his burial ground, and the living to his fooling around.208.
The deaf does not listen, but invents well.209.
The devil is wiser not because he's the devil, but because he's old.210.
The Devil knows more because he's old than because he's the devil.211.
The dog that has his bitch in town never barks well.212.
The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not contradict.213.
The envious never give praise, they only take it in.214.
The fewer donkeys, the more corncobs.215.
The fewer the donkeys, the more ears of corn.216.
The frog squashed the hardest croaks the louder.217.
The good judge starts at home.218.
The heir's tears are but a mask to disguise his joy.219.
The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.220.
The hypocrite is known by his actions, not by his clothes.