PROVERBS IN LATIN AMERICAN TALKProverbs are the popular sayings that brighten so much Latin American talk, the boiled-down wisdom that you are as apt to hear from professors as from peasants, from beggars as from elegantes. Brief and colorful, they more often than not carry a sting. When a neighbors dismally unattractive daughter announce her engagement, Imelda remarked, You know what they say, Senora: Theres no pot .so ugly it cant find a lid. And when her son-in-law blustered about
