 While learning a new language there is one thing that will help you to keep your interest and diversify the process of learning. For sure, this one thing is culture of the country of learning. That is why very often acquainting with sayings, proverbs, legends and etc. is highly recommended.
Below you have Spanish sayings and proverbs ("refranero" - a collection of sayings or proverbs), translated into English language. Some of them are similar to English one, other vary but have the same meaning.
1. Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
2. A quien madruga Dios lo ayuda
a) It's the early bird that catches the worm
b) Early to bed and early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise)
3. Más vale maña que fuerza
Brain is better than brawn
4. No se ganó Zamora en una hora
Rome wasn't built in a day
5. Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente
Out of sight, out of mind
6. Nunca llueve a gusto de todos
One man's meat is another man's poison
7. Lo que a uno cura a otro mata
One man's meat is another man's poison
8. Antes de hablar pensar
Think before you speak
9. Lo que no cuesta dinero, siempre es bueno
The best things in life are free
10. El que tiene boca se equivoca
We all make mistakes
11. Lo que siembres cosecharás quien siembra vientos recoge tempestades
As you sow, so shall you reap
12. Quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere
They that live by the sword shall die by the sword
13. Aunque la mona se vista de seda mona se queda
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
14. Nadie sabe lo que vale el agua hasta que falta
You never know what you've got till it's gone
15. En el peligro se conoce el amigo
A friend in need is a friend indeed
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