The proverbs and sayings Colombians are a sign of culture and folk wisdom. They were created to express the experiences and experiences of those who adopt them. In this way, each saying or saying is immortalized and transmitted from one generation to another.
Some of these popular phrases are used to teach something, others to give advice or warn about an undesirable result. Therefore, these phrases always carry a lesson or message in them.
1- In the end, everything is known
2- With a full belly, a happy heart
3- In April, thousand rains
4- Water that you should not drink, better let it run
5- For great evils, great remedies are needed
6- When they touch him, dance
7- Tree that grows crooked, its branches never straighten
8- Each pastry has its cucarrón
9- Whoever leaves and distributes, always gets the best part
10- With those friends, for what enemies
11- Raise crows and they will gouge out your eyes
12- Raise fame and go to sleep
13- When the river sounds, it is because stones carry
14- With a good hunger, there is no stale bread
15- Another dog with that bone
16- The miracle is told, but not the saint
17- At night, all cats are brown
18- Love with love is paid
19- From the calm waters deliver me, that from the brave waters I free myself
20- From said to fact there is a long way
21- Each madman with his theme
22- To the wrong step hurry
23- To what is done, chest
24- Like a stick, like a splinter
25- With the rod that you measure you will be measured
26- Who gets up early, God helps
27- Since the excuses were made, everyone looks good
28- Tell me who you hang out with and I'll tell you who you are
29- If there was fire, ashes remain
30- Where the captain commands, the sailor does not command
31- This one, where he puts the eye, puts the bullet
32- Love forgives everything
33- Silver calls silver
34- To foolish words, deaf ears
35- The habit does not make the monk
36- Men are like bears, the uglier the more beautiful
37- There are no miracles of laziness
38- After being fat, bloated, pot-bellied and with mumps
39- The devil is pig
40- The thief judges by his condition
41- They are hairs from the same dog
42- Paper can with everything
43- The fish dies by the mouth
44- Whoever seeks, finds
45- Who who is silent, grants
46- The one who hits first, hits twice
47- Made the law, made the trap
48- He who plays out of necessity, always loses out of obligation
49- What starts badly ends badly
50- He who covers a lot, little squeezes
51- He who does not cry, does not breast
52- It was like a nursery suck
53- Whoever does not listen to advice does not grow old
54- They brought her down with a mirror from the mountain
55- Who does not want broth are given three cups
56- Who gets married, looks for a house
57- He left the redeemer and came out crucified
58- The one who left for Barranquilla, lost his chair
59- The cure was worse than the disease
60- Time heals everything
61- There are no ugly women, only poorly groomed
62- There is no term that does not expire
63- Work does not kill anyone
64- The lazy person has to work double
65- In closed mouth, flies do not enter
66- War warned, does not kill soldier
67- Where two eat three
68- New broom sweeps very well
69- Like flour from another sack
70- He got into an eleven-rod shirt
71- The wealth of the poor is cleanliness
72- Create a storm in a glass of water
73- He turned the color of an ant
74- Thinking about rooster eggs
75- The arepas are going to burn
76- From grain to grain the hen is filling the crop
77- Much cacique and little Indian
78- You have to grab the bull by the horns
79- You are given the benefit of the doubt
80- You have to give time to time
81- Dirty clothes are washed at home
82- Making of guts hearts
83- Do well without looking at who
84- Son of a tiger comes out pint'o, son of a monkey rabi pela'o
85- He who thinks loses
86- Today for you, tomorrow for me
87- Indian eaten, Indian gone
88- We are together, but not scrambled
89- Envy is always a very bad counselor
90- Faith moves mountains
91- Old hen gives good thistle
92- Ignorance is daring
93- The letter with blood enters
94- Light of the street, darkness of the house
95- So the monkey dresses in silk, monkey stays
96- Practice makes perfect
97- Security killed trust
98- Faces we see, hearts we do not know
99- What is loose, that falls
100- Appearances can be deceiving
101- Everything falls under its own weight
102- He who sins and prays, draws
103- Putting a cat for a hare
104- He's putting his finger on the sore
105- He added salt to the wound
106- Disrupt even a pellet
107- Do not break a plate and you have to hide the dishes
108- The courteous does not take away the brave
109- What is learned well is never forgotten
110- What does not kill, makes you fat
111- To whom they are going to give, they keep
112- It will dawn and we will see
113- The worst blind is the one who does not want to see
114- Tuesday 13 neither marry nor embark
115- It is better to be alone than in bad company
116- Better pale for a while than red for a lifetime
117- It fits me like a glove
118- There is more time than life
119- It's scarce candy
120- He discovered warm water
121- Many beggars together lose alms
122- He who owes nothing, fears nothing
123- There is no evil that for good does not come
124- You do not learn from mistakes made by someone else's head
125- Does not stitch without thimble
126- Adding more fuel to the fire
127- The water you drink does not get dirty
128- Every rule has its exception
129- He killed the goose that laid the golden eggs
130- Not for much getting up early dawns earlier
131- The Sun is not covered with a finger
132- Works are loves and not good reasons
133- Eyes that do not see heart that does not feel
134- The righteous pay for sinners
135- Forward or to gain momentum
136- For the tastes, the colors
137- It is better than over and not missing
138- Before it gets lost, it better hurt me
139- Little woman, always a bull
140- Speak more than a lost person when they find him
141- More lost than Limber's son
142- Old dog beats lying down
143- The dog dances for money
144- A cowboy is counting
145- Go from Guatemala to guatepeor
146- Small town, big hell
147- That your left hand does not find out what the right hand does
148- They love each other like little brothers
149- What is inherited, is not stolen
150- You have no candles in this funeral
151- Earning indulgences with others' Our Fathers.