2246 Spanish Proverbs / Page 28
541. From snow, whether baked or boiled, you will get nothing but water.
542. From that dust comes this mud.
543. From the leather of others you can cut long strips.
544. Get a good name and go to sleep.
545. Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day.
546. Gifts break rocks.
547. Give a clown your foot, and he'll take your hand.
548. Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
549. Give a dog a bad name and hang it.
550. Give a thing and take a thing, to wear the devil's gold ring.
551. Give a traitor good words and you make him loyal.
552. Give me a seat, and I will make myself room to lie down.
553. Give me the ass that carries me in preference to the horse that throws me.
554. Give orders and do no more, and nothing will come of it.
555. Give the grateful man more than he asks for.
556. Giving alms never lessens the purse.
557. Go in God's name, for he takes a loaf of mine.
558. Go not every evening to your brother's house.
559. Go not with every ailment to the doctor, with every plea to the lawyer, or with every thirst to the can.
560. Go to bed supperless and you will wake without debt.