2246 Spanish Proverbs / Page 51
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In large rivers one finds big fish but one may also be drowned.1002.
In less than a thousand years we shall all be bald.1003.
In my own house I am a king.1004.
In the absence of honest men, they made my father mayor.1005.
In the bagpiper's house they are all dancers.1006.
In the face of love and death, courage is useless.1007.
In the garden more grows, than the gardener sows.1008.
In the long run, the greyhound kills the hare.1009.
In the presence of your neighbor don't praise your wife or his.1010.
In the report, of riches and goodness always bate one half.1011.
In the rich woman's house she always commands; he never.1012.
In wartime no sweets are given out.1013.
Indiscreet questions must be answered with a lie.1014.
Ingratitude is the daughter of pride.1015.
Insults should be well avenged or well endured.1016.
Invite your son-in-law to a fowl, and he will take away the lemon.1017.
It fares ill with the house where the spinning-wheel commands the sword.1018.
It goes ill in the house where the hen sings and the cock is silent.1019.
It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another's.1020.
It is a loss of soap to wash the ass's head.