2246 Spanish Proverbs / Page 96
1901. To a woman and a magpie tell your secrets in the marketplace.
1902. To be a merchant, the art consists more in getting paid than in making sales.
1903. To be like the esquire of Guadalaxara, who knew nothing in the morning of what he said at night.
1904. To be like the tailor of Campillo, who worked for nothing, and found thread.
1905. To beards with money cavaliers pay respect.
1906. To change one's mind is rather a sign of prudence than ignorance.
1907. To deny all, is to confess all.
1908. To deny everything is to confess everything.
1909. To drunken mothers-in-law give full jugs.
1910. To eat and to scratch one has but to begin.
1911. To err is human, to forgive divine.
1912. To every evil doer his evil day.
1913. To find oneself in tight breeches.
1914. To flee and to run are not all one.
1915. To forget a wrong is the best revenge.
1916. To friend and foe alike I tell them how bad she is, so that I don't have to share her with anyone.
1917. To give is honour, to love is grief.
1918. To give too much when little is asked is a form of refusal.
1919. To him that watches, everything is revealed.
1920. To him who gives you a capon you may spare a leg and a wing.