For the people that do not have kids, they still often share the same problems and pleasures that parents do, through their nieces, nephews or other children that are close to them.

It goes in one ear and out the other. If you are going to say stupid or foolish things, I am not interested in listening.

I’ve heard that story before. Used when someone is lying to you, for example, the homeless person that says he needs money for food when everyone knows he really wants it for booze.

I couldn’t give a hoot, I couldn’t give a rat’s ass, I don’t give a shit, Who cares, I don’t care.

In spite of all the preparations and precautions taken something unexpected always happens, the one thing you never planned for is the one thing that happens.

When things do not come out as planned one must remain calm to face the situation.

Own up to one’s mistakes. If you made a mistake you must confront it and resolve the situation.

Extremely fast

When in Rome, do as the Romans. When you are visiting an unknown place, just copy what the locals are doing, and you will fit in fine

Everything eventually comes to light. Sooner or later everything is revealed.

Sooner or later problems or difficulties can be overcome or resolved.

When you are confronted with large problems, just make sure that you have everything organized and in place to fix it. If it’s a big problem, don’t come with some small idea to patch over the situation. Make sure you solution will eliminate the problem.

Make do with what you’ve got. When one thing is not available, one must make do with something else.

To be beyond saving, either in a medical health sense or in the sense that someone is so bad, there is no way to pull him out of it.

To keep at something. It is fine to ask for God’s help, but one must keep working so that the project moves forward.

It can happen to the best of us. Refers to commonplace occurrences that happen to everyone.

His time will come. Anyone’s good deeds will be recognized eventually, if at no other time, than when the person faces their Creator.

He’ll get his, He’ll get what’s coming to him, He’ll get what he deserves, His time will come. Sooner or later whoever does something wrong will be caught.

Brains over brawn. The pitirre is a small bird that attacks specifically the guaraguao, a large hawk. The implication of the phrase is that just because someone or something is physically large does not mean that it will automatically dominate over someone much smaller.

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth