Spanish And English Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.

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

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.

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.

The early bird catches the worm.

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.

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

A fool and his money are soon partying.

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

A fool and his money are soon married.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

actions speak louder than words

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

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

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

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

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