Old Spanish Sayings [Frases hechas]

• A good life stretches the wrinkles. [Buena vida arrugas tira.]
• Love with love should be repaid. [Amor con amor se paga.]
• Do not sign a letter that you have not read, nor drink the water that you have not seen. [No firmes carta que no leas, ni bebas agua que no veas.]
• Good beginning, half is done. [Buen principio, la mitad está hecha.]
• God protect me from the calm waters; from the rough ones I will protect myself. [Del río manso guárdeme Dios; que del fuerte yo me guardaré.]
• He that does what he should not, has things happen to him that he cannot believe. [El que hace lo que no debe, sucédele lo que no crée.]
• Each saint wants his own candle. [Cada santo quiere su propia vela.]
• A finger does not make a hand, nor a swallow a Summer. [Un dedo no hace una mano, ni una golondrina verano.]
• Flies do not enter a closed mouth. [En boca cerrada no entran moscas.]