When you uproot vines as you plant vines, you’ll never harvest the grapes.
More Sicilian Proverbs:
Whoever marries for love will always live in pain.Sicilian
Who has many comforts and does not use them, won't find a confessor who will grant him absolution.
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Three things make a man rich: Earning and not spending, promising and not doing, buying and not selling.
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Who sins and then makes amends, trusts in God.
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Summary justice is a summary offense.
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If the olive trees blossom in April, you'll have enough to collect them with barrels; if they bud in May, you'll have enough to fill a small measure; but if as late as June, you'll only be collecting handfuls.
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