2246 Spanish Proverbs / Page 93
1841. There is no pleasure but palls, and the more so if it costs nothing.
1842. There is no pot so ugly but finds its cover.
1843. There is no remedy for death, but death itself is a remedy.
1844. There is no such witness as a good measure of wine.
1845. There is no tax upon lying.
1846. There is no thief without a receiver.
1847. There is no woman who sleeps so deeply that the sound of a guitar won't bring her to the window.
1848. There is no worse apprentice than the one who doesn't want to know.
1849. There is no worse joke than a true one.
1850. There is not a pair of ears for every Jew.
1851. There is nothing like deprivation to generate thanks for small mercies.
1852. There is some distance between Peter and Peter.
1853. There is truth in wine.
1854. There was already twenty in the family, so my grandmother had a baby.
1855. There wasn't a sound to be heard. You could have heard a pin drop.
1856. There would be no ill word if it were not ill taken.
1857. There's honor among thieves.
1858. There's no accounting for taste.
1859. There's no argument like that of the stick.
1860. There's no making a good cloak of bad cloth.