The saying is that sharp and sententious popular saying that usually includes advice or a moral.
For example, a person who normally wakes up early, when faced with a comment regarding how early he usually wakes up, may answer the following in order to explain the reason for his behavior: the early bird God helps… It is said that the sayings are sententious because they precisely affirm with force some question; In the previous case, it would be the affirmation that God helps those who get up early, then, they will have work, those who do not will not have it.
Almost always the origin of this or that saying is due to the experience of some old man or wise person, who after coming across an apprenticeship transmitted it in this way to subsequent generations.
While 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 theme of the sayings ranges from the most elementary and basic, such as meteorology to questions of destiny.
In some way, sayings, in times when oral tradition was in charge of transmitting wisdom from one generation to another, constituted the cultural baggage of the people in question.
Their structure it is paired (stanza of two verses that rhyme with each other) and can resort to both prose and verse, as well as literary figures, such as ellipsis, parallels, antithesis, in order to facilitate that oral perpetuation of which we spoke above.
The popular saying, for its part, 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…
