Favourite phrases. - sayings.
My grandfather was always saying this.
"Life's a giggle."
"La vida es una risita." or is this a risotto
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Life is uncertain, eat dessert first.
Vida es incierto, come postre primero.
Mine is simple and everyone has heard it, "Do unto others...." ie:"The Golden Rule"
My two favorite sayings are:
"You teach people how to treat you."
"It's never too late to live happily ever after."
Life is like a box of chocolate, so.....
If the shoe fits, wear it if it was on the other foot in his mouth, and that's like the pot calling the whole 'nother kettle of fish blackhearted or running the table around like a head with its chicken cut off. And if you don't like it you can go fly a lump it that is as white as don't eat the yellow snow which is also about as easy as shooting fish in a barrel full of monkeys that couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with their eyes closed and all the lights turned on but nobody's home because the elevator doesn't go all the way to the top of the morning.
Sorry. I got a bit mixed-up, metaphorically speaking 
"What goes around, comes around"
(our misdeeds will come back and "bite" us)
In Greece we have a saying among many, that roughly translates to this..
Don't give an angry man dishes to wash and to a hungry man bread to bake.
The Spanish equivalent must be something like this..
' No le dé a un hombre enojado platos para lavar y a un hombre hambriento de pan para hornear. '
forgive my grammar..!
I have always liked "there is a snake under every rock"
hay una serpiente debajo de cada piedra"
I like this one myself. It's in Latin:
Calvo turpuis est nihil comato, which I believe translates to 'nothing is uglier than a bald man with hair'.
A couple I recently read from Carlos Fuentes:
No tendremos nada que decir sobre nuestra propia muerte.
El muerto no sabe lo que es la muerte, pero los vivos tampoco.
I like this one: Como te ves me vi y como me ves te verás and Haz el bien sin mirar a quien
I heard this when I was traveling in Latin America, and it helped me out so much:
"Preguntando se llega a Roma"
"asking gets you to Rome"
I like many phrases..
¿Por qué no te callas?
Life will find a way. (from Jurassic Park)
La vida encontrará una manera.
If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.
Me da igual.
It gives me equal...
