A threatened buffet is never well given.
More Italian Proverbs:
The end of the pig is the beginning of the sausage.Italian
He who looks on has two-thirds of the game.
Italian
He who demands does not command.
Italian
You have nobody to blame but yourself if you stumble more than once over the same stump.
Italian
He who climbs to high is near a fall.
Italian
There never was a shoe however handsome that did not become an ugly slipper.
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