The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry. And for the poor, when he has something to eat.

More Mexican Proverbs

• 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.
• The trees connect us.
• Love grows from sight.
• The closer to a tree, good shade covers you.
• Who gets angry, loses.
• Every chapel has its own celebration!
• No matter how early you get up, you can’t make the sun rise any sooner.
• A man forewarned is equal to two.
• Theres no worse struggle than one that never begins.
• Those who don’t eat, take food away.
• There is no competition among lighthouses.
• No road is safer than the one just robbed.
• Clear accounts, long friendships
• If you don’t show, you don’t sell.
• Be careful what you wish for as it could become true.
• The devil knows more because he is old rather than because he is a devil.
• 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.