Top 1200 Spanish Proverb Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch-the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs-was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. Now I understand that I've gotten to enjoy things that others have not, whether it's the laughter, the poetry of my Spanish language - I love Spanish poetry, because my grandmother loved it - our food, our music. Everything about my culture has given me enormous education and joy.

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

When I go to Colombia or Mexico, I speak Spanish. When I go to Italy, I speak Italian. When I'm in Germany, I speak German. Would I expect them to speak English in these countries? No. I mean, great if they do, but no. Would I be offended if in Spain they say we speak Spanish? No. If I was an immigrant there, no.

Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

CONJUGATE THIS: I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

I know Ritchie Valens in 1959 had 'La Bamba' but to be totally Spanish - because, you know, Ritchie didn't speak Spanish - but to be a total Latin artist like myself, to be out in a field where there weren't any categories for Latinos... I felt good that I was maybe - I didn't know it at the time - but I felt good that I opened the door.

All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.

I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!

For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.

You never know what little idea or joke, what flame flickering really quickly, will become a song. That first idea, it can come any time. If it's in Spanish, you go on in Spanish. If it's in French, French. If it's in English, English. Or Portuguese. I'll try to do my best. I like Italian, though I don't speak it much.

My mother at a young age put me in bilingual, so my strength is really more in Spanish. Even though I live and I was born and raised in the States, you know, in the Bronx, in Spanish I get my point across. And when I'm writing music, when I'm doing music, it's easier for me, and I know exactly how to express myself.

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

When I have to switch back and forth, it's not hard to go from the American accent to speaking Spanish, but then speaking Spanish and going back into the American accent is hard. I practice it so much. I talk to myself in the mirror all the time. It's like speaking multiple languages.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words, I don't have the vocabulary. I think if I forced myself to read in Spanish - you know, I always say I'm going to, but I lose my patience reading in Spanish, because I really do read the way a third grader does, mouthing the words. That takes a long time!

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

When I tweet in English, Spanish people get mad at me. When I tweet in Spanish, English people get mad at me. You never can be 100 percent for everybody, you know. I try to do both, at the same time; but it's hard.

I think I can adapt quite easily from having a Spanish mother and an English dad and growing up in both places. I feel like I've got two lives - that Spanish life, which was so free, and then I lived in England and went to an all-girls, private school and had to fit in with that. That switching out and becoming someone else, I find it quite liberating, actually.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb