Chilean proverbs

Next, we present the best known Chilean proverbs so that you know something more about the culture and way of life of this great Andean country.

Chilean proverbs

If you want to cross the river you have to wet your feet

If you want the dog to follow you bread

If you want them to come see you have the house without sweeping

More short than pig hug

Slower than slap of astronaut

More false than stepmother kiss

More entrador than stick plow (arrival person)

Uglier than lie

Black that intention of mother -in -law

Mendigo that does not ask to starve. It refers to the fact that if someone does not verbalize their need other people will not realize and will not help it

More nervous than dog in swing

More nervous than nun with delay

Rariest than chicken with teeth

If you look a lot back anywhere you will arrive

More Fome than to dance with the sister

Uglier than hitting mom

More sewing than gold button

The day of the loquat

Each teacher with his little book

Each feather flock together

Eat the color

Commune with wheel 'e cart

More Chilean proverbs

If you want peace prepare for war

Look for the fifth leg for the cat

Drunk but a good boy

If leisure causes tedio work is a good remedy

More serious than a boat dog

If I have seen you, I don't remember

Rariest than Chinese Colorin

If your wife is pretty receives few visits

If you see the stars shine a sailor to navigate

Perejil sows in May and you will have for the whole year

About tastes and colors have not written the authors

Soldier who flees serves for another war

Safe mature bachelor

Tobacco, wine and women, they lose man to lose

Both swim and swim to die on the shore

The pitcher goes so much to the fountain that in the end is broken

It has the tail among the legs

Every lame blames the cobblestone

Everything is the color of the glass with which you look

All the good or is sin or fattening

If you want the blind man to sing the chicken ahead

All that glitters is not gold

All roads lead to Rome

Sierra water, and stone shadow

All the best sweets have their pinch of salt

After the storm comes calm

A friend is worth one hundred relatives

A good rooster in any chicken coop sings

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A nail drives out another nail

One swallow does not make a summer

One hand washed to the other and both wash their face

See to believe and not to be touched

Old green and capricious neither good mother nor good wife

Living is dying slowly

And something else butterfly

Solomon already said that good wine rejoice the heart

Zapatero to your shoes

Broken or healthy shoe, better on foot than in hand

To whom he pays advanced, his servant serves him

Who cheated on you once, you never have to believe

To King King put on

If you want to see your husband chubby after the soup give him a swallow

A river uprooted, gain of fishermen

Open the drawer, the thief is a guest

The skin coats well if you want to get old

Welcomes the helpful, and you do not admit the harmful

Remember, daughter -in -law, that you will also be mother -in -law

Healthy water to people

Water that you don't drink, let it run

There is the lamb's mother

Levante air, in front water

Garlic, salt, and pepper, and the rest is a story

To the master ready and warned, the servant never cheated him

When Caesar is from Caesar and God what is of God.