A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
As ill-luck would have it.
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
It takes all sorts (to make a world
The absent feel and fear every ill.