Excerpt from Select Proverbs of All Nations: Illustrated With Notes and Comments; To Which Is Added, a Summary of Ancient Pastimes, Holidays, and Customs; With an Analysis of the Wisdom of the Ancients, and of the Fathers of the Church; The Whole Arranged on a New Plan The Spanish proverbs are celebrated for their pith and humour, but they are more characteristic of the age of cervantes and gil blas than of the modern Spaniards. They are replete with humour and good-nature - and, like those of Italy, teem with jokes on the fat monks, - with a sprinkling of satire on kings and governments, of which, formerly, the Spaniards entertained a lively jealousy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.