I leave you a list of Argentine sayings with recommendations and teachings derived from collective wisdom, dealing with topics as diverse as interpersonal relationships, karma, virtue, responsibilities or emotions.
Sayings are small phrases that have been passed down from generation to generation and that transmit popular knowledge and wisdom acquired through experience. They normally transmit knowledge that is considered true by a large part of the population.
-Where there was fire ashes remain.
-The house with a good foundation is not afraid of any wind.
-Cheap is expensive.
-To the little tree, you have to straighten it from a young age.
-Everyone talks about the fair as it is going.
-The one who is born pot-bellied is the one who gets tied down.
-A god begging and with the hammer giving.
-He who does not limp, limps.
-Roasted sorrel, sooner dead than tired.
-He who does not love you, mocking you, defames you.
-What begins badly ends badly.
-Who of the scorpion is stung, the shadow scares him.
-He who sleeps in someone else's house, wakes up early.
-A house of your own is better than a castle of others.
-He who is hungry dreams of bread.
-Where there is justice, there is bread.
-Friends and books, few and good.
-More throws a shell than a team of oxen.
-The one who does not have the most, with his grandmother is entertained.
-Ass of a lot, wolves eat it.
-There is nothing more dangerous than a willful ignorant.
-To the one who gives and takes, a hump is raised.
-Actions take away passions.
-In the absence of bread, cakes are good.
-Whoever wants celestial, that costs him.
-One swallow does not make a summer.
-Shrimp that falls asleep is carried by the current.
-A good hunger no hard bread.
-He who lives on hopes dies of hunger.
-Experience is a comb that they give us when we are already bald.
-To all lazy, the goats go away.
-To small enemy, big barrier.
-Horseshoe that rattles, nail is missing.
-A river uprooted, gain of fishermen.
-Where the devil can't put his hand, stick his tail.
-Tree that grows crooked never straightens its branch.
-From said to fact there is a certain stretch.
-Without spurs or bridle, there is no good horse.
-The friend who does not lend, and the knife that does not cut, that gets lost, it does not matter.
-Birds of a feather flock together.
-Who shoots without a bullet, never kills.
-Little bump, don't knock down an oak tree.
-He who sows thistles gathers thorns.
-He who gets up late, neither hears mass nor buys meat.
-The man is like the bear: the uglier the more beautiful.
-After the rain the sun always comes out.
-Who suffers for his pleasure, pays his faults crying.
-Something sticks to the one who walks with wax.
-Old cat, cute mouse.
-The rooster above always shits the one below.
-There is nothing that is not known nor debt that is not paid.
-Where least expected, the hare jumps.
-To wolf meat, dog tooth.
-The more money, the more hungry to keep it.
-First are my teeth than my relatives.
-When one door closes, another opens.
-He who waits, despairs.
-Do not say what you should not, or ask what you do not care.
-Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are.
-The thread is cut at the thinnest.
-Who gives you the bile, gives you the honey.
-The letter with blood enters.
-The lie has short legs.
-Diseases come on horseback and go on foot.
-God helps those who help themselves.
-Water that the river goes down, up will not return.
-Cold hands, love for a day.
-The one with the itch should scratch.
-Whoever attends well learns if in addition to hearing he understands.
-The one who hopes lives, desperate dies.
-One on the nail, the others on the horseshoe.
-Who alleges, does not surrender or refuse.
-To the one who errs, forgive him once, but not after.
-To deceased enemy, forgiveness and forgetfulness.
-Leaves of the fallen tree, toy of the wind are.
-Broth tastes better than chicken.
-The monkey, even if it dresses in silk, it remains cute.
-In time the figs ripen.
-In adversity friends meet.
-Son of a cat, kills mice.
-Who owes nothing, fears no one.
-Absence and forgetfulness always go hand in hand.
-Not everyone who writes is a writer.
-When there are figs, there are friends.
-Who does wrong, do not wait well.
-Looking for defects, affections are lost.
-The slow ox drinks the cloudy water.
-The punishment hurts, but he's a good friend.
-With the few years, come the deceptions, and with the many, the disappointments.
-Easy that is, the difficult thing is to do.
-Love and money were never companions.
-If envy were ringworm, how many people there would be!
-By the thread the ball is taken out.
-Better a good friend, and not many and bad.
-Money calls money.
-He who does not cry does not breast.
-The bird is known for its plumage.
-Coal that was ember, easily ignited.
-The good is not known until it is lost.
-In the absence of the cat, the mice are celebrating.
-He who has a straw tail should not approach the fire.
-One hand washes the other and they both wash their faces.
-God gives bread to the one who has no teeth.
-Who does not look forward, back stays.
-He who kills iron, dies iron.
-He who has a store, let him take care of it; and if not, sell it.
-He who enters winning, leaves losing.
-Appearances can be deceiving and assumptions can harm.
-The accent sounds and the tone poisons.
-The cross in the breasts and the devil in deeds.
-Never affirm anything without knowing it first.
-The higher you climb, the stronger the blow will be.
-What is learned well late is forgotten.
-The good friend is proved by danger.
-Every cloud has a silver lining.
-Badly acquired goods have enriched no one.
-Por eso quiero hacer las cosas con Calma y poder terminar Los trabajos pendientes.
-The badly acquired is never lucid.
-More is the fuss than beans.
-When the soul is in the body, place has hope.
-After drinking, each one says his opinion.
-Ax that cuts a trunk is not a friend of the tree.
-It's never too late when bliss is good.
-Confidence kills man.
-The one who goes wrong ends.
-By shit the bird is known.
-To whom God gives it, Saint Peter bless it.
-Talk whenever you must and be quiet whenever you can.
-What was not in my year, was not in my damage.
-Love with love is paid and the rest with money.
-I know you cod, even if you come in disguise.
-He who enters at a gallop leaves at a trot.
-Who with cats walks, learns to scratch.
-Which good tree approaches, good shade shelters it.
-You do not have to get in the way by walking well on the shore.
-Who loves well, punishes well.
-Raven that flies high, it sure looks far.
-There is no better defense than a good offense.
-Water as ox and wine as king.
-God save me from the still water, let me free myself from the cloudy water.
-Year of figs, never see it.
-Greed breaks the sack.
-Between cabbage and cabbage, lettuce.
-The cheap is usually more expensive.
-Son of a tiger, overo has to be.
-Who seeks finds, but no medal.
-Every cloud has a silver lining.
-Up façade and down lint.
-It is better to learn as an old man than to die a fool.
-A good listener few words.
-Seamstress without a thimble sews little and sews poorly.
-When the alms are great, even the saint distrusts.
-Crocodile that falls asleep is wallet.
-Things past, things stepped on.
-Clear accounts, secure friendship.
-Silence is consent.
-The one who covers the most is always the one who tightens the least.
-When one walks in the bad, even in the dry one slips.
-Tell me what you brag and I'll tell you what you lack.
-Seeing the face of the monkey, you know the milk it has to give.
-Whoever spits in the sky falls.
-Don't put water in my wine, there are worms in the river.
-Angel who is not born for heaven, it is in vain that I look up.
-the well understood carity starts at home.
-The early bird God helps.
-When a donkey brays, the others stop their ears.
-Who ass is born, ass dies.
-At the soapmaker's house, the one who does not fall, slips.
-Love and laughter are not good for shirt.
-You are son and you will be father, which one you will do, such will you.
-Many acquaintances, few friends.
-Who does what he wants, does what he should not.
-More is achieved the good times than the bad.
-The man propose and God dispose.
-He who chooses a lot, gets the worst.
-Hit wrong, it happens from time to time.
-Where there is love, there is pain.
-There is no joy that lasts, no sorrow that does not end.
-The thief believes that all are of his condition.
-Each one takes care of his house and does not get into someone else's.
-He who sleeps a lot, lives little.
-In love and in war, anything goes.
-At the head, eating straightens her.
-Each owl to his olive tree.
-There is nothing worse than what is not done.
-The one that hugs a good tree, good shade, shelters it.
-Cackling hen signals that it has laid an egg.
-He who does not risk, does not undertake.
-Blind hobby reason.
-Donkey curse is never enough.
-In the school of experience, lessons are expensive.
-It is not the pig's fault, but the one who gives it the bran.
-The gossip pleases but the gossip angers.
-Bad steel never made a good sword or a good knife.
-Sleight of hand, villain games.
-Caution is better than regret.
-Loving and not wanting is like seeing and not smelling.
-Account and reason remain friendship.
-Do not make judgments to penalties, as they come bad, they come good.
-Some heat the water and others drink the mate.
-Whoever wants eggs, who can put up with the cackling.
-Real enemy, more than leisure is money.
-Boys boys, problems boys; big boys, big problems.
-A dead king, king put.
-Who does not have a head to think must have a back to bear.
-Horns, like teeth, hurt at birth, then help to eat.
-Abundance gives arrogance.
-Big donkey, walk or not walk.
-The devil knows for devil, but he knows more for old.
-Rooster that crows early, hoarse dawns.
-Trees at night, in the morning they are suns.
-To the good friend, with your bread and with your wine.
-Do not despise the advice of the wise and the old.
-He who kills with the sword, dies with the sword.
-Before you finish, do not praise yourself.
-If the river makes a noise its because water is running.
-A good reputation is better than a golden bed.
-Evil of many, consolation of fools.
-In the mouth of the liar, truths are lost.
-Horse that does not gallop goes straight to the tread.
-Good wine, good vinegar.
-Party without wine is not worth a damn.
-Cautious man is never defeated.
-There is no hard that does not soften.
-He who misunderstands, misunderstands.
-Good thing lasts a little.
-Who goes to bed singing wakes up crying.
-He who says what he wants, listens to what he does not want.
-It is not necessary to say: I will not drink this water because one day it may quench my thirst.
-Who inherits it does not steal it.
-Running away in time is not cowardice.
-What does not go away in tears goes away in sighs.
-From drip to drip, the chorrera is made.
-Eating and scratching only ask for a start.
-Closer are my teeth, than my relatives.
-Not by much getting up early it dawns earlier.
-Do not sign what you do not read, or drink what you do not see.
-Everything can be fixed, except death.
-Today flatterer, tomorrow traitor.
-Whoever scavenges the hornet's nest, the wasps sting.
-Things have to be taken as who they come from.
-Out of sight, out of mind.
-He who flatters and flatters, wishes good or evil.
-The goat laughs at the balls of the ram.
-Go to a wedding or baptism without being called.
-Weapons are loaded by the devil and shot by jerks.
-Whoever errs and makes amends, entrusts himself to God.
-Self praise, known need.
-One hand washes the other, and they both wash their faces.
-Who does love you, will make you cry.
-In feats, art is better than skill.
-All roads lead to Rome.
-From the fallen tree everyone makes firewood.
-Never lose hope, that the rope reaches the deepest well.
-He who mistreats an animal shows a natural evil.
-Who is a friend of wine, is an enemy of himself.
-Tell me what air you breathe and I'll tell you what blood you have.
-The one who leaves without being thrown out, returns without being called.
-Of what you do not like, do not eat anything, and never much of what you like.
-Of such firewood, such splinter.
-The man propose and God dispose.
-He who is not sick is rich without knowing it.
-Before you get married, watch what you do.
-The thief believes that all are of his condition.
-Some cardan the wool and others have the fame.
-For the beards are the razors.
-Abbot who was an altar boy, knows who drinks his wine.
-A better partner, a lot of advice and little money.
-Each one brings the ember to his sardine.
-Go to bed without dinner, and you will wake up without debt.
-Prepare your jagüel before the dry.
-It is better to walk alone than in bad company.
-Poor love and green wood burn when there is occasion.
-He who says what he wants, listens to what he does not want.
-Good examples and good reasons overwhelm hearts.
-The one who hurries a lot, stays behind.
-To each his own theme.
-Go slowly to get there first.
-From ruin to ruin, whoever rushes wins.
-A good listener, short talker, few words are enough.
-Bug that flies, to the casserole.
-When the bells ring it is because the priest sings.
-Love by force is not will.
-Better a bad arrangement than a good judgment.
-In the mouth of the discreet, the public is secret.
-The daring enjoy more than the happy.
-Become a lamb and the wolves will eat you.
-Yerba mala never dies.
-The years that pass do not return.
-By the thread the ball is taken out.
-Better bee alone than a million flies.
-Whoever chops, has eaten garlic, or eats garlic.
-The careless labrador is eaten by rats.
-If you want to keep your teeth, fly with caution and height.
-The one who burns with milk when he sees a cow cries.
-Each one is the owner of making his ears a bonnet.
-A good chaplain, best sexton.
-A heart that does not hear, lost words.
-After a year, the waiter has the tricks of his master.
-Slow ass, crazy muleteer.
-Who you distrust, do not trust.
-God punishes without stick and without whipping.
-Where the spider bites, the blister remains.
-Get out of bed early and you'll be agile and healthy.
-One is the owner of what is silent and a slave to what he says.
-Do not marry too light, or die single.
-Horse run, donkey stop.
-To letters, letters, and to words, words.
-Today for you tomorrow for me.
-There is no better walking than not stopping.
-Everyone can make a robe out of their cape.
-Where there are mares, foals are born.
-There is no good or bad that lasts a hundred years or man that resists it.
-The meowing cat is never a good hunter.
-Water that you should not drink, let it run.
-Love does not look at lineage, nor faith, nor tribute lawsuit.
-Flattering friend, or round your wife or your money.
-Well thought out things are spot on.
-Drop by drop the jar fills.
-There is no language that I speak that does not pay for it.
-Old meat makes good broth.
-Who sings his evils scares.
-Old parrot does not learn to talk.
-To marry badly, it is better never to marry.
-The oxen are made walking.
-The student of fame, climb the throne and go down the branches.
-To the restrained and entremés everything turns out the other way around.
-Where least expected, the hare jumps.
-Over rained, wet.
-To whom God does not give children, the devil gives nephews.
-A new knight, an old horse.
-Who has ailment, open the bag and be patient.
-He who has a mouth is wrong and he who does not, shuts his mouth.
-In front I do comply and behind the king I kill.
-There is no worse knife than the tongue.
-Joys of a poor man, they are announcements of a regret.
-A gift horse in the teeth not look.
-Misfortune of many, consolation of fools.
-The best agreement is when both parties are dissatisfied.
-Mr money is a powerful gentleman.
-Happiness is not for everyone, but for those who deserve it.
-From the discussion comes the light.
-Genius and figure to the grave.
-which he makes pay.
-Misfortunes and roads make friends.
-Do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today.
-There is never a lack of a broken for an unstitched.
-To abuse is to misuse.
-For the mother there is no ugly son.
-Who does not venture does not pass the sea.
-Cat with gloves does not hunt mice.
-Flower on the chest, love undone.
-He who is born to be a donkey must not be a horse.
-How little flatters, how much annoys.
-To honest gray hair there are no closed doors.
-Married man, donkey tied.
-He wants more skill than strength, so that love does not twist.
-In the absence of bread, the bun is good.
-The ambitious sacrifices his rest for money.
-Each house is a world, each heart a deep sea.
-For the fine drunk, neither the water nor the wine is enough.
-Some are born with stars and others are born starry.
-When the sky thunders, it signals that it wants to rain.
-Do not leave the true for the doubtful or the old for the young.
-Each owl to his olive tree.
-Each one talks about the dance as it has gone.
-Before doing anything, check with your pillow.
-The need has the face of a herectic.
-Raise crows and they'll gouge out your eyes.
-If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.
-Joys of a poor man are announcements of sorrow.
-Not by long walking you get there sooner.
-Old ox, tender grass.
-Tuesday, do not get married or ship or move elsewhere.
-Pruning late and sowing early, if you miss a year you will hit four.
-The lion is not as big as they paint him.
-What one discards, another takes advantage of.
-Who talks a lot, does little.
-What is endured with pain is remembered with pleasure.
-When the fly gets hot, the head doesn't rule.
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