MEXICAN PROVERBS.

Lake County Press, Issue 1065, 21 May 1903, Page 6

MEXICAN PROVERBS.

There are inuny line epigrams ;unl proverbs in Spanish, used in Mexico. Many of them cannot bo translated no as to preserve the terseness and aptness of the original. .Many, of com no, ore tho sumo a-i the Hnglish proverbs or simply change ''"" »*iiiiil«*- They are used with nil possible variety of anplieatioii. A gentleman who was seated mur it group of young ladies at a railway station, busy with their faiewoll kisses, stood it, lis long ii"i lin could and then protested: " Don't count your money in tho presence of tho poor." Following uio some of tho proveibs not uncommonly heard In Mexico:— " lie who nover vendues will never cross the iteii." ' There's no yum without pain." '• Flies cuiiuol enter a closed mouth." " Behind the L'ross is the Devil." " A cut in gloves will never catch rati." " To the hungry no bread is dry." " A hook that is shut makes no scholar." "Tho good laundress washes the shirt. Hrst." '• No evil will endure a hundred years." " When the river is passeil the saint is forgotten." " Me who has little has little to fear." " 11 the pill were not bitter it would not he ui!t." "Do not 1111st your money to tluwo who Urrp their eyes oil the (lour (i.e., make an ontvr.uil sij'.n of piety)." '• Wine and good fuck do ti"t last." " It is good llsliiug in troubled waters." •■A frugal lich father and n spendthrift son." •' No word is ill-spoken if it is not, illunderstood. " " A tongue may inflict a deeper wound than u sword."