The closer to a tree, good shade covers you.

More Mexican Proverbs

• No road is safer than the one just robbed.
• Theres no worse struggle than one that never begins.
• Those who don’t eat, take food away.
• There is no competition among lighthouses.
• The devil knows more because he is old rather than because he is a devil.
• Clear accounts, long friendships
• If you don’t show, you don’t sell.
• Be careful what you wish for as it could become true.
• Everyone knows where his own shoe pinches him.
• Less donkeys, more corn.
• Great deeds are reserved for great men.
• The whole arena tells them to kill the bull. Yet the bull should kill no one.
• No flies enter a closed mouth.
• A person born to be a flower pot will not go beyond the porch.
• Never ask god to give you anything. Ask him to put you where things are.
• Man proposes. God disposes. And the devil undoes it.
• A steady step is better than a run that tires.
• A secret between two is gods secret. A secret between three is known to all.
• Wounds from the knife are healed but not those from the tongue.
• Full stomach, happy heart.
• How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterwards.
• The stomach comes first.
• There’s no better mirror than an old friend.
• The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry. And for the poor, when he has something to eat.
• One string is good enough to a good musician.
• No one is a prophet in his own land.
• A bent tree never has a straight trunk