I leave you with the best Chilean sayings, a compilation of sayings that have been transmitted from old to young and that are useful for any area of life; personal life, work, family and much more.
Sayings are popular and generational sentences, and a form of historical wisdom and part of the cultural heritage of countries. Their ultimate purpose is to leave a teaching or advice, derived from experience, to live life. Additionally, they may have a moral or philosophical background.
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-The goat always shoots for the mountain.
-Better a just in case than a who would have known.
-I'm like a parrot on the wire.
"Better the coward fled here than the brave man died here."
-God grows them and devil joins them.
-He who gets married wants to get married, and whoever gets burned, let him blow.
-To stick with the eagle.
-The hen is badly combed.
-Water that you don't have to drink, let it run.
-Iquique is a port and the others are coves.
-When bad weather is shuffled, it is better to unsubscribe.
-Not by much getting up early it dawns earlier.
-To bad weather, good face.
-What does the pig know if he has never seen the stars?
-Although the boot is dressed in the sun, it still crushes.
-The dog does not move its tail for you, it is for the bread.
-The priest cat, who preaches and does not practice.
-To the one who wants celestial to cost him.
-When God does not want, the saints cannot.
-Good things like and bad entertains.
-To the land that you go, do what you see.
-Better a bird in the hand than a hundred flying.
-To lie and eat fish, you have to be very careful.
-Many hands spoil the roast.
-Each one kills his heifer.
-The one who knows, knows, and the one who doesn't… is the boss.
-Curiosity killed the cat… but satisfaction revived him.
-Whoever gets close to a good shade, a good shade shelters him. And whoever goes up with a good stick, a good stick falls on him.
-As we were little, the grandmother gave birth.
-More folded than truck tent.
-You went out with the pig on your shoulder.
-Work begets nothing, only the pituto is fruitful.
-The lazy man works twice.
-Tell a leso that he is good for the ax and he will peel you a mountain.
-Occasion that happened, bird that flew.
-Rabijunco on land, storm at sea.
-Don't put off what you can do tomorrow.
-One points and God shoots.
-He who kills iron, dies iron.
-Eye by eye, tooth by tooth.
-According to the toad, it is the stone.
-There is no evil that lasts 100 years, nor a fool that can endure it.
-Like father Like Son.
-Calm waters are deep.
-Better stale bread standing than steak kneeling.
-New broom always sweeps well.
-Not all that glitters is gold.
-Tell me what you boast and I'll tell you what you lack.
-Go slowly and you will not get tired.
-More elegant than the clown's mare.
-There is no snail that does not have a turn.
-A old ox, tender grass.
-There is no deaf person who does not want to hear.
-He who does not cry, does not breast.
-Son of a tiger has to come out overo.
-I fell like a kick in the wadding.
-The fruit does not fall very far from the tree.
-In the blacksmith's house, a wooden knife.
-A gift horse in the teeth not look.
-God helps those who get up early.
-A good listener few words.
-The pig is badly peeled.
-Better late than never.
-More lost than Lieutenant Bello.
-Mare one-legged not for threshing.
-Don't do what you don't want them to do to you.
-The fault is not the pig, but who gives the bran.
-The greatest benefactor of politicians is the hope of the poor.
-How you grew up, you stayed.
-Cherer than seagull leg.
- To the rechucha, the shoe store.
-Do not drown in a glass of water.
-A lot helps the one that little hinders.
-Let's not step on the capes between superheroes.
-The clear things and the pisco capel.
-Love that begins with fury, ends with coldness.
-Let's not see luck among gypsies.
-Every cloud has a silver lining.
-Clear accounts maintain friendship.
-With you, bread and onion.
-For a lame mare the threshing is not going to stop.
-Do not suffer from other people's fever.
-At the master's eye the horse fattens.
-Have your chest tightly closed, and the key well kept.
-There are no more dogs than the cat.
-Jack of all trades, master of none.
-By the mouth dies the fish.
-Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are.
-No one dies on the eve.
-Shrimp that falls asleep, it carries current.
-You think they are tying the dogs with sausages.
-What is inherited is not stolen.
-Don't drink so much, drink red.
-Sheep only produce wool.
-If I were a dog, I would have bitten you.
-It is better to be alone than in bad company.
-He who leaves without being thrown out, returns without being invited.
-With calm and chalk.
-A picture is worth a thousand words.
-Law partner is not hard.
-The one who rides in a chucaro pingo that holds if he bucks.
-More dangerous than monkey with a knife.
-This is not a cat that covers his poop.
-Take things from whoever comes.
-Lower than the upper jaw.
-A river uprooted, gain of fishermen.
-Guatita full, happy heart.
-Slower than justice.
-He who does not risk, does not cross the river.
-We are all the same, but some of us are more equal than others.
-Drier than Paco's horse muzzle.
-You have less shine than vulture shoemaker.
-The devil knows more for being old than for being the devil.
-Clear and running water does not pollute people.
-Each pig to his stake.
-You are like the dog in the manger.
- Better a thief to know than a thief to know.
-A liar is caught faster than a thief.
-Love and delivery, it's worth it.
-Each bird likes its nest.
-The oven door burns the bread.
-In the house where there is an old man, there will be good advice.
-Don't leave me with that Doña María killed the duck and the visitors did not come.
-God gives a hat to the headless.
- Every rascal is distrustful.
-Woman who has two men is not stupid, but warned; if one candle goes out, the other remains lit.
-Bad cave said the rabbit, what a penca said the donkey.
- More abrupt than a turn of the fight.
-Every day his eagerness.
-Pa 'calf everyone draws a bow.
-The turkey died of ailments.
-He who enters the redeemer, comes out crucified.
-The miracle is told, but not the saint.
- Better to be the head of a mouse than the tail of a lion.
-To Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's.
-Love pulls more than a team of oxen.
-The sayings of the old men are little gospels.
-Even the best sweets have a pinch of salt.
-If you want to see your chubby husband after soup, give him a sip.
-With empty guts, there are no joys.
-There is no deadline that is not met or debt that is not paid.
-Union is strength.
- A good friend, good coat.
-Well love who never forgets
-In the long run everything works out
-Well, if brief, well twice.
-Not all that glitters is gold.
- Cowardly man marries badly and late.
-Painted flowers don't smell like anything.
-When the wise man errs, the fool rejoices.
-The more you know men, the more you admire dogs.
-Ambition killed the mouse
-Love moves mountains.
-New loves forget the old ones.
-Distrust the young doctor and the old barber.
-From the said to the fact there is a long way.
-The happiness of the ugly, the beautiful wishes it.
-Love is blind.
-When the rooster dies, the hen hugs any chicken.
-Sick who eats and shits, has nothing.
-Old horse does not learn new trot.
-The extremes are never good.
-To drink and swallow, the world is going to end.
-The hunchback does not see his hump, but the other's.
-Living forewarned, it makes good sense.
-There is the lamb's mother.
-No one is hurt by wine if it is drunk wisely.
-The penalties of love are removed by liquor.
- In the absence of hands, good feet are.
-Garlic, salt, and pepper, and the rest is story.
-Go from bad to worse, there is nothing worse.
-Mother's love, everything else is air.
-Open the drawer, invited is the thief.
-Lots of knowledge makes wise, but not happy.
-Slowly when thinking, and soon when executing.
-Not in dogfight have I seen you.
-Who eats sardines as a young man shits thorns as an old man.
-There's like the house of one.
-He who came to the world and does not drink wine, what the hell did he come to?
-The insect takes advantage of life by being an insect.
-To foolish words, deaf ears.
-You can't cover the sky with your hand.
-The dog is dead, rabies is over.
-Good actions are worth more than good reasons.
-If you are good enough, do what you should.
-Much ado About Nothing.
-About tastes and colors, the authors have not written.
-If you want the dog to follow you, give him bread.
-Where they give them, they take them there.
-It's raining in the wet.
-A old cat, cute mouse.
-To great evils, great remedies.
-Green and capricious old woman, she was neither a good mother nor a good wife.
-Hen who sings, to put it comes.
-If you see the stars shine, a sailor goes out to sail.
-House without inhabitants, nest of mice.
-The habit do not do the monk
-Unrequited love, wasted time.
-If you want peace prepare for war
-Here a cup was broken, and everyone goes home.
-Nobody knows who she works for.
-The fool thinks he knows everything.
-After the storm comes the calm.
- The dead dog, throw him out of the garden.
-The devil is not as black as they paint him.
-Variety pleases at will.
-If the sea were wine, everyone would be a sailor.
-Asking you get to Rome.
-In the poor man's house, joy does not last long
-Whoever lies, soon regrets it.
-Where there was fire ashes remain.
-That little egg wants salt.
- Each saint has his day.
-Tobacco, wine and woman spoil the man.
- To any pain, patience is the best.
-It makes more turns than a cookie in the mouth of an old woman.
-One swallow does not make a summer.
-There is no disgusting person who is not scrupulous.
-Whoever takes and does not give, the devil will take.
-Where I put my eye, I put the bullet.
-He who keeps, always has.
-Horse that flies, does not need a spur.
-Love with hunger does not last.
-Everything lame blames the cobblestones.
-He who is born cicada, dies singing.
-It is well born to be grateful.
-Do good and don't look at whom.
-Favor with favor it's paid.
-You have to say about none of them what you don't want to say about yourself.
-To those who pay in advance, their servant serves him badly.
-Apprentice much, master of none.
-The cat and the mouse are never of the same opinion.
-If you look much back, you will get nowhere.
-Between husband and wife, no one has to interfere.
-Whoever seeks finds.
-The big fish eats the boy.
-Speak little, listen more, and you will not err.
-I am scared of the saint, of the rogue not so much.
-The man propose and God dispose.
-Attend and understand to learn.
-Drink and eat, it is a things to have to do.
-To be beautiful, you have to see stars.
-One hand washes the other and both wash the face.
-The bad weather brings goods with it, flies and bad friends flee.
-In anger the dog bites its owner.
-The one who needs visits you.
-The old dog when he barks gives advice.
-Time clears things up.
-Sewing and singing, everything is starting.
-The badly acquired, goes as it has come.
-Loose lips sink ships.
-To another dog with that bone.
-Good perfume comes in a small bottle.
-The one that arrived from Copiapó, took it out of the wicks.
-You have to be in the hard and the mature.
-Under the flowering bush, there is the hidden snake.
-The path started, it is half walked.
-Worse than a flea in the ear.
- Worse is chewing lauchas.
-Money is not holy, but it works miracles.
-In asking there is no deception.
-If you want the blind man to sing, the hen ahead.
-From hate to love, there is only one step.
-In a thief's house, they steal even your breath.
-These are lentils, if you want you can eat them and if you don't leave them.
- Running water, heals people.
-Love comes in with songs and comes out with crying.
-The master never goes to mass early.
-Pumpkin, pumpkin, each for their home.
-Looking for a needle in a haystack is shipwreck.
-Between two friends, a notary and two witnesses.
-Do the words are gone with the wind.
"In the absence of horses, let the donkeys trot."
-In the soapmaker's house, he who does not fall slips.
-In a long journey, the light load is heavy.
-By spoiling you learn.
-The calm waters are the worst.
-A bug you do not know, do not step on its tail.
-There is no uphill without downhill.
-The one who went to Tocopilla, lost his chair.
-Evil loves you who always praises you and never reprimands you.
-The half truth is a true lie.
-Rainbows at dawn, water before dusk.
-Solomon already said that good wine gladdens the heart.
-If leisure causes you boredom, work is a good remedy.
-Weed never dies.
-Laziness is the mother of poverty.
-Do not bite the hand that feeds you.
-A very stubborn to ask, do not resist.
-It is better to be silent than to talk to fools.
-Two lame people never look kindly at each other.
-A lack of bread, cakes are good.
-Wrap up your skin well, if you want to grow old.
-Who laughs last laughs better.
-Silence gives consent.
-Remember, daughter-in-law, that you will also be a mother-in-law.
-Dogs don't bark at bad times.
-Patience is the mother of science.
-The widower's pain is short but sharp.
-Going against the current is almost never convenient.
-Good and cheap, they do not fit in a shoe.
-When the river sounds, it is because it brings stones.
-Friendship for interest, does not last a single month.
-In need, friendship is known.
-Of sayings and sayings we make a thousand plans.
-Thief who robs a thief, has a hundred years of forgiveness.
- Drunkards and children always tell the truth.
-If you want them to come to see you, have the house without sweeping.
-Speaking up to the elbows, you bore everyone.
-Each madman with his theme and each wolf on his path.
-The house is small, but the heart is big.
-Things are known by speaking, while being silent they are ignored.
-Do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today.
-Letter thrown, cannot be withdrawn.
-Practice makes a master.
-He who is born a fool, a fool dies.
-It is the custom of villains to throw the stone and hide their hand.
-To whom God did not give children, the devil gave nephews.
-Everything is the color of the glass you look at.
-The occasion makes the thief.
-Guns are carried by the devil.
-Close the door behind you who did not find it open.
-You won't go to bed without knowing one more thing.
-To what you can't, don't you dare.
-In confidence is the danger.
-The more you drink, the less you eat.
-The movement is demonstrated by walking.
-Who spits to heaven, it reverberates on their face.
-God gives bread to the toothless.
-The cleaner is not the cleanest, but the one that dirties the least.
-The wiser is not the one who knows the most, but the one who knows what is appropriate.
-Meowing cat, never a good hunter.
-Out of sight, out of mind.
- Stepping on shit brings good luck.
-Lame with fear, run light.
-The beautiful thing gives everyone joy.
-What you don't want for yourself, you don't want for anyone.
-Friendships that are true, keep the doors open.
-They say that it is bad to become old, but it is worse not to reach that.
-See to believe and not to err to touch.
-Time reaches everything, in the short or in the long run.
-Who is bad, ends badly.
-If you want to cross the river, you have to get your feet wet.
-The bad news comes flying, and the good limping.
-To the misstep hurry.
-To cold hands, burning heart.
-A friend is worth a hundred relatives.
-Who sings, his evil scares.
-You don't have fingers for the piano.
-When everything is boiled, they can give you a hare.
- Sierra water, and stone shadow.
-At night all cats are black.
- A fine drunk, first water and then wine.
-From the brute man, no fruit comes out.
-There is no fool who is not admired by another fool.
-Embrace what is beneficial, and do not admit what is harmful.
-Whoever cheated on you once, you must never believe him.
-A bread for fifteen days, hunger for three weeks.
-The one who laughs alone, remembers her evils.
-Food made, company undone.
-After the storm comes calm.
-The well learned is known forever.
- Cheap is expensive.
-Wisdoms and deceptions, increase with the years.
-God punishes, but not with sticks.
"It is not honey for the donkey's mouth."
-In the mouth of a liar, the truth becomes doubtful.
-There is no better seasoning than hunger.
-Errando, errando, is succeeding.
-From the plate to the mouth the soup falls.
-The master is smart and informed, the servant never deceives him.
-The laundry is washed at home.
-Sow parsley in May, and you will have it for the whole year.
-The promised is debt.
-If your wife is pretty, she receives few visitors.
-Goat that shoots into the mountains, there is no goatherd to guard it.
-Bad bug never dies.
-Give the skillet who has the upper hand.
-There is no worse blind than he who does not want to see.
-Old saying never lies.
-To dinner and to bed only once is called.
-With the meter you measure, they will measure you.
-When money talks, everyone is silent.
-When the cat is absent, the mice have fun.