he who has the good to his hand and chooses the bad, that the good he complains of may not come to him. - Miguel de Cervantes

After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.

Desta manera habían de salir de sus gobiernos todos los malos gobernadores, como sale este pecador del profundo del abismo: muerto de hambre, descolorido, y sin blanca, a lo que yo creo.

I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.