It takes four living men to carry one dead man out of a house.
More Italian Proverbs:
You have nobody to blame but yourself if you stumble more than once over the same stump.Italian
In prosperity no altars smoke.
Italian
Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.
Italian
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
Italian
Every one thinks himself without sin because he has not those of others.
Italian
Still water breeds vermin.
Italian