Sicilian Proverbs (1198 Proverbs)
- Youth spent freely, old age spent in poverty.
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- The husbands belong to the wives and hookers are for the wild beast.
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- The man who loses his wife for good cause cannot be called cuckold.
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- The offender writes in dust, the offended writes in marble.
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- The poor didn't have but gave to charity.
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- The satiated don't believe the hungry.
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- The turtle is not afraid of hail stones.
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- The yawn doesn't lie: it wants you to eat or sleep.
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- There isn't a Pentecost without a Sirocco nor a woman without a bow.
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- To appear and not to be is like weaving and not making cloth.
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- True wisdom is born with white hair.
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- We have but one soul to lose.
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- When cranes migrate, bad weather can't be far off.
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- When the crane passes, urge the oxen on.
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- When the rooster crows off the hour, don't hesitate to adjust the time.
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- When you have money you live happily, when you don't you lose your friends
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- When you're travelling, don't speak poorly of your neighbor.
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- Who builds on sand, the fall is near.
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- Who fails to listen to his elders, will hang his knapsack in the wrong place.
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- Who hopes for alms from the priests, winds up at the insane asylum.
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- Who openly admires, will not buy.
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- Who sins and then makes amends, trusts in God.
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- Whoever cultivates clay, harvests silk.
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- Wine is as sweet as honey but it can be abused.
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- Women, fire, and the sea are perilous for man.
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- You don't cast a net into a river that has no fish.
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- You'll begin to be rich when you learn to scorn riches.
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- The ideal is a four year old dog, an eight year old horse, an eighteen year old woman and a twenty eight year old man.
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- The man who marries gives up liberty and accepts responsibility and it's said: The poor guy, who would have thought it.
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- The oil merchant handles gold and diamonds; the grain merchant does business with silver, but the wine merchant is a poor man.
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- The poor is not believed.
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- The scales tip where the weight is.
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- The unmarried don't know about labor pains.
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- The young cock said to the young chicken: the whole world is like our home.
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- There's always room for a tasty treat.
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- To be rich with bees and mares, is to be rich and have nothing.
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- Uncollected olives, left at random fill neither the saddle bag nor the little sack.
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- We learn by standing on the shoulders of the wise.
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- When death is near, neither doctors nor medicine help.
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- When the dripping continues it succeeds in piercing the hardest stone.
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- When the screech-owl sings, you can try to go to work for someone else if you're working for a bad owner.
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- When you have, you are.
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- Where malice has taken root, friendship can never be formed.
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- Who can't bite should not bare his teeth
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- Who fails to show restraint in their youth, will be miserable in their old age.
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- Who insists on running up a slope, is confused and crazy.
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- Who pays in advance eats stinking fish.
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- Who spares himself while young, will work until he's old.
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- Whoever exchanges gets rid of the coarse and the bad.
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- Wine should not be watered.
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- Wooden casks make good wine.
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- You don't choose whom to love and not love.
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- You'll know the good soldier in battle.
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- The jackass that is late returns loaded.
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- The man with a beautiful wife is always singing, the one with little money is always counting.
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- The old have to be respected.
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- The poverty of the gentleman is better than the money of the poor man.
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- The September moon governs seven moons.
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- The unscrupulous steal everything.
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- The young man plays the flute, the middle aged man plays the harpsichord, the old man plays the organ.
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- There's always time for Mass.
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- To be worth as much as the H in the ABCs.
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- Unexpected good fortune, gets more appreciation.
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- Wealth and holiness, believe only half, if you believe less, you'll do better.
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- When everything is going smoothly, a man tends to get cocky.
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- When the ear of corn hangs to the side the farmer watches it with comfort.
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- When the sickness is old not even Hippocrates can help.
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- When you lose friends, you go down many steps.
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- Where many roosters are crowing, it's not because it's daylight.
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- Who can't help, listens in vain.
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- Who gets angry without reason, makes peace without satisfaction.
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- Who is defeated by words is not always convinced by the truth.
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- Who poorly supports himself, soon falls.
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- Who starts many things, finishes nothing.
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- Whoever exchanges some lard for some other lard, one or the other must be rancid.
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- With a clear Sirocco and a dark North Wind, go to sea without concern.
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- Words are for reasoning.
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- You don't light candles to old saints.
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- You'll never be sated with bread and olives.
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- The January moon brightens like a clear day.
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