What is your favorite wise saying in Spanish?

Question

What is your favorite wise saying in Spanish? For me, Una personalidad brillante valen más que todas las propiedades. A bright personality are worth more than all properties.-Andrew Carnegie.

How about you?

A bright personality is worth more.... - Echoline, Dec 29, 2010

Answer 1

El amor es el mayor refrigerio de la vida.
( Love is the greatest refreshment in life )
Pablo Picasso

He should know, he took a lot of refreshments , and often. Half his luck! - ray76, Dec 30, 2010

Answer 2

Mine is a Venezuelan colloquialism that makes perfect sense there, but contains what could be interpreted as a rude word elsewhere. In English it means, "Love from afar is the love of fools." "Amor de lejos es amor de pend****". It rhymes in Spanish.

I didn't think that pendejo was a bad word. I use it all the time. - Bob-Dressler2, Dec 30, 2010

It isn't a *really* bad word, but it is despective. It means anything from 'pussy' (coward) to dummy, etc.. - bill1111, Dec 30, 2010

¡Deja la pendejada, chico! ¡ Escríbelo como es! ;-) - Gekkosan, Dec 30, 2010

REally? All this time I thought it was the word for "umpire", since I hear it all the time at baseball games!! je je je - mountaingirl123, Dec 30, 2010

We used it as a synonym for "fool". I understand it's a bit more descriptive elsewhere. - KevinB, Dec 30, 2010

Amor de lejos, felices los cuatro. - nelson_rafael, Jun 1, 2011

Answer 3

Morrocoy no sube palo, ni cachicamo se afeita. I'd love to see if you can figure out what that means!

A tortoise can't climb a pole, nor can one shave an armadillo... ? - pesta, Dec 30, 2010

Don't ask a man to do what he is not capable of doing. Or - we all have our own talents. Or - mind your own business. - mountaingirl123, Dec 30, 2010

Answer 4

Por preguntar, nada se pierde.

One loses nothing by asking. (If you don't ask, you don't get.)

Answer 5

Tengo que elogiar a una catedrática ya fallecida que al recibir de mí Bachillerato en Español, me presentó un plato plateado en el cual estaba inscrito lo siguiente, " Salud, Amor y Pesetas y El Tiempo para Disfrutarlos" Aún tengo en un sitio de honor, este plato en mí casa.

I have to give praise to a professor now deceased, who, upon my recieving a Bachelor's degree in Spanish, gave me a silver plate upon which was inscribed the following, "Health, Love, and Money, and Time to Enjoy Them!" I still have that plate in a place of honor in my house.

This old Irish woman instilled in me the love of this beautiful language, some thirty-seven years ago! Athough it means nothing to anybody, her name was Professor Margaret Adams!

You are a fortunate man Joe. - ray76, Dec 30, 2010

I felt quite emotional when I read your last paragraph. Thank you. - siempre, Dec 30, 2010

Answer 6

My wife always remembers the one she learned in high school Spanish: En boca cerrada no entran moscas.

Answer 7

En el mundo de ciegos el tuerto es rey.

Heh, that must be a Mexican or somewhere else's version :) . In Spain we know it at 'En el país de los ciegos..' - bill1111, Dec 30, 2010

Answer 8

Porque tanto amó Dios al mundo, que dio a su Hijo unigénito para que todo el que cree en él no se pierda, sino que tenga vida eterna. Juan 3:16 (NVI)

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 (NIV)

Answer 9

Ray que era perfecto, no cometí ningún error, Fantástico.

Por desgracia, fue un sueño, pero un hermoso sueño.

:-) Voting! - Echoline, Dec 29, 2010

Answer 10

Del dicho es hecho hay mucho trecho. From words to action is a long way.

es hecho, ¿no? - Bob-Dressler2, Dec 30, 2010

Gracias Bob ,typo. - jennyo45, Dec 30, 2010