Spanish Proverb Quotes

• Two great talkers will not travel far together.

  George Henry Borrow

  Breakup, Two, Together

  George Henry Borrow (1852). “Roving Adventures, Or Lavengro: The Scholar - the Gipsy - the Priest”, p.200

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• Give the devil his due.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Revenge, Giving, Devil

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

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• Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.243, Da Capo Press

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• Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

  Carl Schmitt

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Carl Schmitt (2007). “Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political”, p.85, Telos Press Publishing

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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

  Philip Sidney

  Gossip, Rumor, Behind Your Back

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• Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

  Edmund Muskie

  Communication, Speaking Spanish, Silence

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• Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

  Chris Burden

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

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• Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

  John Heywood

  Birthday, Gratitude, Horse

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.391

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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• Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

  Martin Heidegger

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Should Have, May, Should

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• Too many cooks spoil the broth

  Jane Austen

  Food, Haste Makes Waste, Chinese

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.2567, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

  Seth Godin

  Best Effort, Worth Waiting For, Chinese Proverb

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• Half a loaf is better than none.

  John Heywood

  Half

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• You get what you pay for.

  Gabriel Biel

  Pay, Contradicting, Cradle

  "Expositio Canonis Missae" by Gabriel Biel, Lectio 86, 1576.

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• If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

  Margaret Mahy

  Jobs, Work, Best Effort

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• Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.
  [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]

  George Herbert

  Witness

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• You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ears, Purses, Turnips

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.349

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• Don't count your chickens before they egg.

  Ross O'Donovan

  Eggs, Fables, Chickens

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• Strike while the iron is hot.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Iron Will

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Barry Windeatt (2008). “Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation”, p.193, Oxford University Press

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• Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

  Tim Ward

  Buddhist, Speaking Spanish, Silence

  Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.73, Changemakers Books

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• All is well that ends well

  Emily Rodda

  Wise, Drama, Italian

  Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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