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The saying is that sharp and sententious popular saying that usually includes advice or a moral.
For example, a person who usually wakes up early to a comment about how very early that you usually wake up, you can answer the following in order to explain the reason for your behaviour: the early bird God helps… It is said that the sayings are sententious because they precisely affirm with forcefulness some question; in the previous case it would be the affirmation that God helps those who get up early, then, he will have a job, whoever does not will not have it.

Almost always the origin of this or that saying is due to the experience from some old man or wise, who after running into a learning He passed it on in this way to later generations.

Although the authors of the sayings are unknown, there are also many, many literary and biblical phrases of well-known authors that once disseminated and due to their forcefulness became sayings. Meanwhile, the thematic of the sayings goes from the most elementary and basic, such as the

meteorology even matters of destiny.

Somehow, the sayings, in times when the tradition oral was in charge of transmitting wisdom from one generation to another, they constituted the baggage cultural of the town in question.

Their structure it is paired (stanza of two verses that rhyme with each other) and can use both prose and verse, as well as literary figures, such as ellipsis, parallelisms, antithesis, in order to facilitate that oral perpetuation of which we spoke above.

The popular saying, on the other hand, it is the collection of short, sententious and popular statements, that is, of sayings. They are usually classified by geographical areas, languages ​​or themes.
Some popular sayings: a what is done, chest, forewarned man is worth two, the one who works does not eat straw…

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