Spanish And English Quotes

• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Love, Confusion, Vitality

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• If at first you don't succeed, try management.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Perseverance, Persistence

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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Party

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• A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

  Thomas Tusser

  Money, Italian, Taxation

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• Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

  Tim Ward

  Buddhist, Speaking Spanish, Silence

  Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.73, Changemakers Books

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• Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

  Edmund Muskie

  Communication, Speaking Spanish, Silence

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• If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

  William Feather

  Success, Perseverance, Hard Work

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• The early bird catches the worm.

  William Camden

  Wisdom, Italian, Bird

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• A fool and his money are soon married.

  Carolyn Wells

  Money, Italian, Fool

  Carolyn Wells (1912). “The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady”

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• Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.

  Cathy Hopkins

  Death, Drinking, Beer

  Cathy Hopkins (2007). “Mates, Dates and Chocolate Cheats”, p.13, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Book, Doe

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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Drinking, Beer, Weight Loss

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

  William Edward Hickson

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Try and Try Again". Poem by William Edward Hickson,

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• A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Italian, Taxes Funny

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• I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able to move back and forth between Spanish and English, and I incorporate both languages in my books.

  Pat Mora

  Moving, Book, Able

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

  Anita Diament

  Writing, Lines, Littles

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• I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

  Sebastian Arcelus

  Mother, Italian, Speaking Spanish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while... you start changing the verb for the adjective, for example, which is a common thing between Spanish and English. I change that sometimes but after a couple days there, boom, I'm back.

  Antonio Banderas

  Change, Couple, Talking

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• Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.

  Joan Larkin

  Roots, Sound, Different

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Heart, Italian, Matter

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