Love is one topic that triggers a lot of inspiration for poems, songs and, of course, sayings. Here are some examples of Spanish sayings about love. These examples below are not that romantic, they are more like expressions of wisdom about the profoundly tender and passionate affection for another person that we call love.
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14 Spanish Sayings About Love
1. Amor con amor se paga.
(Love is rewarded with love.)
2. Desgraciado en el juego, afortunado en el amor.
(Unlucky at cards, lucky in love.)
3. El amor es ciego, pero los vecinos no.
(Love is blind, but not the neighbors.)
4. El amor y el interés se fueron al campo un día y más pudo el interés que el amor que te tenía.
(Love and interest went to the countryside one day and the interest was stronger than the love I had for you.)
5. Amor de lejos, amor de pendejos.
(Long-distance love affairs are for fools.)
6. El amor lo perdona todo.
(Love forgives everything.)
7. El amor entra por la cocina.
(The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.)
8. Más doblado que carta de amor.
(More folded than a love letter.)
9. Más fuerte que el amor de madre.
(Stronger than a mother’s love.)
10. Más tira el amor que una yunta de bueyes.
(Love pulls stronger than a pair of oxen.)
11. A amor mal correspondido, ausencia y olvido.
(To an unrequited love, absent and forget.)
12. Más vale querer a un viejo que sabe lo que es amor, que no querer a un mocito, que anda como picaflor.
(Better to love an old man who knows what is love, and not love a lad, who flits around like a hummingbird.)
13. Amor y deseo son dos cosas diferentes; que no todo lo que se ama se desea, ni todo lo que se desea se ama. -Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
(Love and desire are two different things; that not everything you love is desired, nor everything that is desired is loved.)
14. El amor no tiene edad.
(Love has no age.)
What other sayings about love do you know?
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