More Mexican Proverbs
- 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.
- Everyone knows where his own shoe pinches him.
- 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.
- No flies enter a closed mouth.
- 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.
- A steady step is better than a run that tires.
- 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.
- How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterwards.
- No one is a prophet in his own land.
- A bent tree never has a straight trunk
- With warning, there is no deception.
- Who distrurbs the least helps a lot.
- One string is good enough to a good musician.
- One is none.
- One finds what one looks for.
- They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.
- Better alone than poorly accompanied.
- A dog that does not go out does not find the bone.
- Without corn, there is no country.