> So, I wonder if it's just a universal Spanish proverb? Probably! The older exact match I could find in Google Books is from 1846, in a Yucatán periodical: h

> So, I wonder if it's just a universal Spanish proverb? Probably! The older exact match I could find in Google Books is from 1846, in a Yucatán periodical: https://books.google.es/books?id=VNgtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8&dq=%22por+viejo+que+por+diablo%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22por%20viejo%20que%20por%20diablo%22&f=false https://books.google.es/books?id=VNgtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8&dq=%22p...