The whole arena tells them to kill the bull. Yet the bull should kill no one.

More Mexican Proverbs

• 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.
• Actions speak louder than words.
• The fishing’s good in stormy waters.
• It’s not enough to lay an egg. You have to crow about it.
• He who lives with hope, dies happy.
• 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.