A Dictionary of Spanish Proverbs Author:John Collins Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AC A buen botado, buen grito. " From a rich mouthful, a heavy groan." Epicures suffer generally from the gout, and other disorders, resulting from the ind... more »ulgence of their appetites. It is also used to express, that we should not be too careful of the expence and labour of an undertaking, when its object is useful. Diffkilia qua pulchra. A buen companon, luena compania. " A good companion should have good company ;"' or, " a good companion makes good company." A buen servicio mal galardon. " Good service ill rewarded." A buey viejo, concerns mievos. -' An old ox with new bells." Applicable to an old beau dangling after the belles. " What will not beaux attempt to please the fair." Deyden. A buey viejo, no le cates abrigo. " Do not seek a shelter for an old ox." Alluding to old persons, who know irom experience what they require, Bos senior cautt! consulit ipse sibi. A cabo tle den anos, los reyes son villanos, y Ciccito de ciento y diez los villanos son reyes. " At the end of a hundred years, kings become clowns, and at the end of an hundred and ten clowns become kings." This denotes the power of time '-" Time is like a fashionable host, " '' That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, " But with his arms oul-stretch'd, as he would " Grasps the incomer." Shak. chapter{Section 4A cabo tle den anos, todos seremos caltos." We shall be all bald an hundred years hence."To remind us, that at the end of an hundred years we shall be all dead and .forgotten. Post annos centum fugieat discrimina vita. A cada cabo tres leguas de mal quebranto." Every way, or at every end, there aie three leagues of heart breaking."When a man's affairs are so perplexed, that every attempt to extricate himself from his embarrassments pro...« less