2246 Spanish Proverbs / Page 111
2201. With a staircase before you, you look for a rope to go down by.
2202. With bread and wine you can walk your road.
2203. With lightning and with love, the clothes sound, the heart burned.
2204. With money you would not know yourself, without money nobody would know you.
2205. Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.
2206. Woe to the mule that sees not her master.
2207. Women and calendars are good only for a year.
2208. Women and melons are at their best when they are really ripe.
2209. Women and wine rid a man of his common sense.
2210. Women, melons, and cheese are bought by the weight.
2211. Women, wind, and fortune, soon change.
2212. Words must be weighed not counted.
2213. Words will not do for my aunt, for she does not put faith even in deeds.
2214. Work improves the harvest better than the field itself.
2215. Working and painting are better from a distance.
2216. Wounds from the knife are healed, but not those from the tongue.
2217. Wounds heal, but not ill words.
2218. Wounds pain most when grown cool.
2219. Wrinkles are the gravestones of love.
2220. Yesterday a cowherd, to-day a cavalier.