Selection of Spanish proverbs, sayings and idioms most used in Spain, already translated into Italian, as testimony to the wisdom of its people.
Spanish idioms
- It is better for those who say lies to have a good memory.
- Life without friends, death without witnesses.
- With money in hand, the mountain gets lower.
- The advice of a woman is not a great thing, but whoever does not follow him is crazy.
- Tell me not with whom you were born, but with whom you have peace.
- They lived happily and ate partridges.
- Abundance and arrogance go together.
- The shrimp that falls asleep is carried away by the current.
- Jealousy stings more than fleas.
- Whoever loses wealth, loses a lot; those who lose friends lose even more: but those who lose their spirit lose everything.
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- God takes the reason from the one who wants to chastise.
- There is no sauce better than hunger.
- Something is something; less is nothing.
- Weeping we are all born, not even one is born laughing.
- The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.
- Look at your mother-in-law and that's how your wife will look old.
- The water you don't have to drink, let it flow.
- Raise the crows and they'll take your eyes off.
Spanish sayings
- Shared misfortune, less felt.
- Rose smelled by many, it loses its fragrance it loses.
- Drunks and children always tell the truth.
- Young and old, we all need advice.
- Even if a monkey dresses in silk, monkey remains.
- Love is not beautiful if it is not a litigello.
- Good and convenient, they don't fit in a shoe.
- If it is worth doing it, it is worth doing it well.
- Whoever wakes up early is helped by God.
- Good perfumes are kept in small flasks.
- Easy is to criticize and difficult to operate.
- The woman who has no luck with men does not know how lucky she is.
- In war and in love, everything is lawful.
- A hungry man speaks better than a hundred lawyers.
- To love and be wise is impossible.
- Who buys must have a hundred eyes; to those who sell, one is enough.
- What is born halfway never becomes real.
- The truth, like oil, always comes up.
Spanish proverbs
- We all have a little bit of the musician, poet and madman.
- On the way to then you go to the house of the never.
- Poets are born, speakers become.
- The world is a handkerchief.
- Quick and well they don't always walk together.
- Things used to get worse before they get better.
- Love does not respect the law, nor does it obey the king.
- The tongue has no bone but can break the bump.
- Books and years make man wise.
- The best medicine is good food.
- Three very and three little ruin the man: much to spend and little to have, much to speak and little to know, very presuming and little worth.
- There is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving.
- The woman, the wind and the luck change quickly.
- God is the one who heals and the doctor is the one who takes away the money.
- To maintain friendship, one must be separated by a wall.
- Everything that goes up must go down.
- Everyone is the son of his works.
- Council not asked, bad advice.
