2246 Spanish Proverbs / Page 157
- 1561. The bow that is always bent slackens or breaks.
 - 1562. The bowels support the heart, and not the heart the bowels.
 - 1563. The boy is father to the man.
 - 1564. The brain, that sows not corn, plants thistles.
 - 1565. The bread eaten, the company departs.
 - 1566. The bread never falls but on its buttered side.
 - 1567. The busy fly is in every man's dish.
 - 1568. The busy man is troubled with but one devil, the idle man by a thousand.
 - 1569. The buyer has need of a hundred eyes. the seller but one.
 - 1570. The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one.

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