Adjunto la lista de los dichos. Si tienen preguntas por favor escriban un mensaje. Las palabras se las lleva el viento. Actions speak louder than words / voice.

Las penas con pan son menos. All griefs with bread are less.

Lejos de ojos, lejos del corazón. Long absent, soon forgotten.

Ley pareja no es dura / rigurosa. A rule isn't unfair if it applies to everyone.

Lo mismo Chana que Sebas-tiana. (It's) Six of one (and half a dozen of the other).

Lo pasado, pasado está. Let bygones be bygones.

Lo que es moda no incomoda. You have to suffer in the name of fashion / to be fashionable.

Los genios pensamos igual. Great minds think alike.

Los mirones son de piedra. If you want to watch, you'd better keep quiet.

Mal de muchos, consuelo de todos / tontos. Two in distress makes sorrow less.

Mal que no tiene cura, quererlo curar es locura. What can't be cured must be endured.

Mala hierba nunca muere. The devil looks after himself / his own.

Mas puede la pluma que la espada. The pen is mightier than the sword.

Mas sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo. There's no substitute for experience.

Mas se perdió en Cuba. It's not the end of the world. Worse things happened at sea.

Mas vale antes que después. One good forewit is worth two afterwits.

Mas vale dar que recibir. It's more blessed to give than to receive.

Mas vale estar solo que (estar) mal acompañado. It's better to be on your own than with people you don't like.

Mas vale la salud que el dinero / la riqueza. Health is better than wealth.

Mas vale maña que fuerza. Brain is better than brawn.

Más vale tarde que nunca. Better late than never

Mayor dicha es dar que recibir. It's more blessed to give than to receive.

Mucho ruido y pocas nueces. All mouth and no trousers. All talk and no action.

Muerto el perro, se acabo la rabia. The best way to solve a problem is to attack the cause / root of it.

Nada mejor que un ladrón para atrapar a otro ladrón. Set a thief to catch a thief.

Nadie está contento con su suerte. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Ni tanto que queme al santo, ni tanto que no lo alumbre. Try to strike a happy medium.

No dejes camino por vereda / camino viejo por camino nuevo. A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect. Better keep now than seek anon. We would be better off to have than to have coming.

No hay dos sin tres. Misfortunes always come in threes. These things always come in threes.

No hay mal (ni bien) que cien años dure / dure cien años, (ni cristiano / cuerpo / enfermo que lo aguante / resista). Nothing goes on for ever.

No hay más de temer que una mujer despechada. Hell has / hath no fury like a woman scorned.

No hay tempestad que mucho dure. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

No se hizo la miel para la boca del asno. You're casting pearls before swine.

No se oía ni (el vuelo de) una mosca. There wasn't a sound to be heard. You could have heard a pin drop.

No se puede servir a dos señores. No servant can´t serve two masters.

El dia que tu te canses ya/de dar me tu cariño

no creás que yo te ruege más/y sigue tu camino

tu vida no me importará/porque lo que tu harás asi

diré como dice el refran/"ni falta que hace al fin del que se va"

if the day comes when you tire/of giving me your love

don't believe I'll beg for more/and follow you around

your life will matter nothing to me/because of what you will do

I will say, just like the saying goes/"it doesn't matter what you do-in the end he leaves"

La traducción hace sentido?

Ni falta que hace al fin del que se va. This means that in the end, you need someone that will abandon you. So you don´t have them, so then you don´t need them. Something like this. Great song!

Me interesa que tipo de gente usa los diferentes dichos y refranes, en cual contexto. Por ejemplo, en íngles, el tipo que dice "it's all good dude" es un carácter muy diferente del que dice "a stitch in time saves nine". 

Aprender hablar otra idioma es construir un nuevo "yo", porque cada clase de persona tiene vocabulario y manera de hablar muy distinto. Por muchos años hablé con distinto acento de pinchadiscos de Tiajuana (en vez del acento de literata que quiero!)

Some of my favorite Spanish sayings collected through the years (with literal English translations and equivalent meanings)........

A quien madruga, Dios le ayuda.  (The one who gets up early, God helps him.)  "The early bird gets the worm."

El que no llora no mama.  (The one who doesn't cry doesn't suck; that is, 'the silent baby doesn't get the nurse').  "The squeaky wheel gets the grease."

En boca cerrada no entran moscas. (Flies don't enter a closed mouth.)  "Sometimes it's better to keep your mouth shut."

Hijos chicos, chicos dolores; hijos mayores, grandes dolores.  (Little children, little pain; big children, big pain.)

Hay que comer para vivir, no vivir para comer.  (It is necessary to eat in order to live, not to live in order to eat.)

A casa de tu tía, mas no cada día.  (To the house of your aunt, but not each day.)  "Familiarity breeds contempt"

El poder tiende a corromper, el poder absoluto corrompe absolutamente. (el señor Acton)

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (Lord Acton)

A gran prisa, gran vagar. (Much hurrying leads to much wandering.)  "Haste makes waste."

Cita original:   El amor es humo elevado por el vapor de los suspiros. (William Shakespeare)

Original quote:   Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. (William Shakespeare)

A Dios rogando y con el mazo dando.  (To God praying and with the mallet giving).  "Pray to God while using your hammer" or "God helps those who help themselves."

A donde fueres haz lo que vieres.  (Wherever you go, do what you see.)  "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo.  (The devil knows more due to being old than due to being the devil.)  "With age comes wisdom."

El matrimonio es como la muerte; pocos llegan a él preparados  (Marriage is like death; few come to it prepared.)

El hombre que bebe agua teniendo vino en la mesa, es como el que tiene novia y la mira y no la besa. (Mario Sardina)

"The man who drinks water while there's wine on the table is like the one with a girlfriend who looks at her but doesn't kiss her." (Mario Sandina)

Vámonos que nos vamos a mojar. (Let's go so we don't get wet.)  "Let's go while the going's good." or "Let's quit while we're ahead."

Del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho.  (From the saying to the act there is a big distance.)  "Walking the walk is more difficult than talking the talk."

A perro viejo, no hay quien le enseñe trucos nuevos.  (There is no one who can teach new tricks to an old dog.)  "You can't teach an old dog new tricks."

El hombre hace dinero, pero el dinero no hace al hombre.  (Man makes money, but money doesn't make the man.)

Perro ladrador, poco mordedor.  (The dog that is a barker isn't much of a biter.)

Dicho alternativo:   Perro que ladra no muerde. (The dog that barks doesn't bite.)  "His bark is worse than his bite"

Si tu mujer quiere tirarte de un tejado, procura que sea uno bajo. (If your wife wants to throw you off a roof, make sure it's a low roof.)

(1) the lazy crocodile gets turned into a purse / handbag, and

(2) sleeping shrimp are swept away in the current

Del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho.  (From the saying to the act there is a big distance.)  "Walking the walk is more difficult than talking the talk."

Ese es uno de mis dichos favoritos. Es muy cierto! mucha gente habla pero no mucha acción!

"El cocodrilo que se duerme es cartera"
(the sleeping crocodile gets turned into a purse)

"Camaron que se duerme, se lo lleva la corriente"
(sleeping shrimp are swept away in the current)

No conocía el primer dicho, pero que bueno esta!