# The best greguerías by Ramón Gómez de la Serna

The greguería is «humour + metaphor», as its inventor put it. These are the wittiest, taken from «Total de greguerías» (1962) and the selection «Greguerías 1910-1960».

- 13 votes · 12 items
- Dec 28, 2018 · Adriana Santos
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## Top 12

1. **Snoring is noisily slurping a soup of dreams.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Greguerías 1910-1960.
2. **The hardest fish to catch is the soap in the bathwater.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Greguerías 1910-1960.
3. **The heart is love's artichoke.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Total de greguerías (1962).
4. **Our South Pole is in our feet. That's why they get so cold sometimes.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Total de greguerías (1962).
5. **Since she gave slow kisses, her love affairs lasted longer.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Greguerías 1910-1960.
6. **A silk handkerchief is the goodbye of a caress.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Total de greguerías (1962).
7. **Shyness is like a badly tailored suit.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Total de greguerías (1962).
8. **It's never tomorrow; it's always today.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Total de greguerías (1962).
9. **Water lets its hair down in waterfalls.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Greguerías 1910-1960.
10. **An adagio is a sad piece of advice.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Total de greguerías (1962); a pun on «adagio», which in Spanish means both a saying and a slow musical tempo.
11. **The belly button is missing its button.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Total de greguerías (1962).
12. **A humorist isn't a humorist until people call him one.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — From his autobiography, Automoribundia (1948).

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