Bad is the sack that will not bear patching.
More Italian Proverbs:
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.Italian
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
Italian
He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never be, nor ever know, nor ever have.
Italian
Ask which was born first, the hen or the egg.
Italian
He ought not to complain of the sea who returns to it a second time.
Italian
A small woman always seems newly married.
Italian