Flies don’t enter a closed mouth.
Some have the glory, and others card the wool.
Don’t stretch your leg further than the street is long.
What you have to give to the mouse give to the cat.
Smugglers make better custom-house officers than do carbineers.
Money paid, arms soon tired.
Italy to be born in, France to live in, and Spain to die in.
ANECDOTES.
An astute Gallegan one day presented himself with the most candid air at the shop of a tailor, telling him he had come to draw the fifty reals he had deposited with him two years ago.
The tailor was thunderstruck, and replied that he had no money of his, whereupon the Gallegan began to cry out and complain loudly and bitterly, which soon drew a crowd round the shop door.