2246 Spanish Proverbs / Page 49
961.
If you want good service, serve yourself.962.
If you want to be dead, wash your head and go to bed.963.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.964.
If you want to be revenged, hold your tongue.965.
If you want to beat a dog, say he eat your iron.966.
If you want to know secrets, seek for them in trouble or in pleasure.967.
If you want to know the value of money, go and borrow some.968.
If you want to know what a ducat is worth, try to borrow one.969.
If you want to know what a man is really like, notice how he acts when he loses money.970.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.971.
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.972.
If you want to marry wisely, marry your equal.973.
If you want to sleep well, buy the bed of a bankrupt.974.
If you want to thrash your wife, ask her for a drink of water in the sun.975.
If you want to watch, you'd better keep quiet.976.
If you wish good advice, consult an old man.977.
If you wish to be well served, serve yourself.978.
If you would acquire fame, let not the sun shine on you in bed.979.
If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.980.
If you would be well served, serve yourself.