A man forewarned is equal to two.

More Mexican Proverbs

• A golden cage is still a cage.
• A cat with gloves doesn’t catch mice.
• Poor musicians blame their instruments.
• Monday even the hens don’t lay eggs.
• The brave one lives as long as the coward lets him.
• Everyone looks for their own onion to cry.
• The throat must pay for what the tongue must say.
• Who has a store tends to it. If not, they sell it.
• The dead to the grave, the living to pleasure.
• A dog that barks does not bite.
• To want to is to be able to.
• There’s no deaf man worse than the man who doesn’t want to listen.
• The most desirable woman is always the one who belongs to someone else.
• Small is beautiful.
• We are as small as our joy and as big as our pain.
• Money is a good servant. But an evil master.
• Better late than never.
• Don’t put off today what you can do tomorrow.
• The more people are invited, the party is more festive.
• False hope kills more readily than bitter truth.
• A jealous lover becomes a indifferent spouse.
• Where there was fire, ashes remain.
• Everyone makes firewood of a fallen tree.
• Let the water you cannot drink flow by.
• Who does not live to serve does not serve to live.
• He who does not venture, has no luck.
• God helps those who rise early.