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Q: Spanish Speakers - Looking for a quote or proverb ( Answered 4 out of 5 stars,   1 Comment )
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Subject: Spanish Speakers - Looking for a quote or proverb
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: manyou07-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 01 Oct 2005 00:36 PDT
Expires: 30 Oct 2005 23:36 PST
Question ID: 574923
What I'd really like to find is either: a spanish-language proverb
(not an english proverb loosely translated into Spanish!) or a famous
quote from a spanish speaker regarding individuality or uniqueness of
a person's personality.  If you can't find any in spanish, I'd take a
good one in English.
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Subject: Re: Spanish Speakers - Looking for a quote or proverb
Answered By: crabcakes-ga on 01 Oct 2005 10:41 PDT
Rated:4 out of 5 stars
 
Hello Manyou007,  

   What would a collection of Spanish quotations be without one from
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of "Don Quioxte"?

?La diligencia es madre de la buena ventura y la pereza, su contrario,
jamas llego al termino que un buen deseo.?
 Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness its opposite,
never led to good intention's goal. -- Miguel de Cervantes
http://www.quotablecervantes.com/


?No con quien naces sino con quien paces? ? Sancho Panza, in Don Quixote

More from Sancho:
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Dádivas quebrantan peñas?: Expresa que con regalos y dinero todo se consigue.
§ ?Más vale un toma que dos te daré?: El bien presente que se disfruta
es preferible a las esperanzas y promesas.
§ ?Entre dos muelas cordales nunca pongas tus pulgares?: Aconseja no
entrometerse en las peleas entre parientes muy cercanos. Muelas
cordales quiere decir muelas del juicio (= parientes cercanos).
§ ?Viose el perro en bragas de cerro?: Se dice con cierta ironía a
quienes suben en condición social y se muestran despectivos con los
que han sido antes del mismo nivel social que ellos.
 http://www.escuelai.com/spanish_culture/el_quijote/sanchopanza.html

"Buscamos llenar el vacío de nuestra individualidad y por un breve
momento disfrutamos de la ilusión de estar completos. Pero es sólo una
ilusión: el amor une y después divide"
Autor: Lawrence Durrell

"Para destruir las malas prácticas, la ley es mucho menos útil que los
esfuerzos individuales"
Autor: Angel Ganivet
http://www.polseguera.com/cgi-bin/phrases/castella/frasesesp.cgi


?Emplees el lenguaje que emplees, nunca dejarás de expresar sino lo que eres
http://www.anecdotarium.com/busqueda.jsp?idTema=HONRADEZ&cita=1


Here are more:
http://www.anecdotarium.com/busqueda.jsp?idTema=HUMILDAD&refran=1

http://www.anecdotarium.com/busqueda.jsp?idTema=HUMILDAD&cita=1

http://www.anecdotarium.com/busqueda.jsp?idTema=HONRADEZ&refran=1

http://www.angelfire.com/ma/teamotortuga/refranes.html



A la mejor cocinera se le queman los frijoles
http://www.caracasvirtual.com/refranes.asp


A lo tuyo, tu; otro como tú ninguno
What?s yours is yours alone, there is no other

Uno es arquitecto de su propio destino
One is architect of his own destiny.

Lo que has de hacer, no digas cras, pon tu mano y haz
To do what must be done, shut your mouth and roll up your sleeves

Solo los valientes tienen miedo
Only the brave have fear

Más vale mearse de gusto que mearse de susto
Better to pee for delight than pee of fright! 

El que es buen musico, con una cuerda toca
A good musician can play a song on just one string.

Date Buena vida, y sentirás más  la caida.
The softer your life, the harder the fall.

Es de sabios, cambiar de opinion.
It's common for the wise to change opinions.

Tres cosas cambian la naturaleza del hombre: la mujer, el estudio el el vino.
Three things change the nature of men: women, study and wine.

Burciaga, Jose Antonio. ?En Pocas Palabras? a collection of Latino
folk sayings and wisdom, 1997


Hope this helps! I?ll be happy to assist you further on this question
before you rate it. Simply request an Answer Clarification!

Regards, Crabcakes

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Dichos + refranes + citas  + personalidad
Dichos + refranes + ser unico
proverbios
manyou07-ga rated this answer:4 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $2.00
I've got what I was looking for - thank you!

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Subject: Re: Spanish Speakers - Looking for a quote or proverb
From: aynkia-ga on 01 Oct 2005 08:52 PDT
 
Spanish Quote:

Lo que al caballero le hace ser caballero es ser medido en el hablar,
largo en el dar, sobrio en el comer, honesto en el vivir, tierno en el
perdonar y animoso en el pelear. - Fray Antonio de Guevara

English Quote:

Who it has the right to criticize must have the heart to help. - Abraham Lincoln

Spanish proverb:

La buena mujer no alcanza una buena fama solamente con ser buena, sino
con parecerlo. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

English proverb:

The intelligence of an individual is moderate by the amount of
uncertainties that is able to support. - Immanuel Kant

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