The peasant is like the monk in many ways.
More Sicilian Proverbs:
He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.Sicilian
The time for pressing is while the iron is hot.
Sicilian
January hoeing fills the basket.
Sicilian
If the mare jumps, the filly will jump higher.
Sicilian
There isn't a Holy Week without the fifty days, nor the fifty days without the Sirocco.
Sicilian
A woman in her thirties, throw her in the sea.
Sicilian