Italian Proverbs (1849 Proverbs)
- He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
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- He who blows dust fills his eyes with it.
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- He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
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- He that exceeds his commission must answer for it at his own cost.
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- He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
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- He is a friend when you sneeze -- all he says is "God bless you."
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- Hard upon hard never made a good wall.
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- God save you from a bad neighbour, and from a beginner on the fiddle.
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- Give a clown your finger he'll grasp your fist.
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- Don't bite till you know whether it is bread or a stone.
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- Every one goes with his own sack to the mill.
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- Even a frog would bite if it had teeth.
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- Does your neighbour love you? Lend him a sequin.
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- By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible.
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- Better gain in mud than lose in gold.
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- Bad is the sack that will not bear patching.
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- Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad.
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- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box.
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- A sheep's bite is never more than skip deep.
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- What keeps out the cold keeps out the heat.
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- To protest and knock one's head against the wall is what everybody can do.
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- To a crazy ship every wind is contrary.
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- There's no getting to heaven in a coach.
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- There is little peace in that house where the hen crows and the cock is mute.
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- The whole ocean is made up of single drops.
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- The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.
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- The right hand is slave to the left.
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- The more the fox is cursed, the more prey he catches.
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- The gardener's dog does not eat lettuce and will not let others eat it.
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- The dying cannot leave their wisdom or experience to their heirs.
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- The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.
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- That suit is best that best fits me.
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- Speak not ill of the year until it is past.
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- Save a thief from the gallows and he'll be the first who shall cut your throat.
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- Out of a white egg often comes a black chick.
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- One enemy is too many, and a hundred friends are too few.
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- Nothing is ill said if it is not ill taken.
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- No need to say "trot" to a good horse.
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- Near is my petticoat but nearer is my smock.
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- Love, a cough, and smoke, are hard to hide.
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- Lent, which seems so long, is short at other men's tables.
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- It is the blood of the soldier that makes the general great.
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- It is good living under the shadow of the belfry.
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- It is always good to have two strings to your bow.
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- Ill luck comes by pounds and goes away by ounces.
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- If the hen had not cackled, we should not know she had laid an egg.
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- How can the cat help it if the maid be a fool?
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- Wealth is not his who makes it, but his who enjoys it.
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- To promise and give nothing is comfort for a fool.
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- Tis a silly sheep that confesses to the wolf.
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- There never was a shoe however handsome that did not become an ugly slipper.
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- There is a deep sea between saying and doing.
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- The white coat does not make the miller.
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- The soldier is well paid for doing mischief.
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- The rich never have to seek out their relatives.
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- The moon does not heed the baying of dogs.
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- The full belly does not believe in hunger.
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- The donkey won't drink if he can't see water.
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- The bucket goes so often to the well that it leaves its handle there.
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- That priest is a fool who decries his relics.
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- Soon crooks the tree That good gambrel would be.
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- Revenge a hundred years old has still its milk-teeth.
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- Out of a great evil often comes a great good.
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- One can't enter Paradise in spite of the saints.
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- Nothing is ever well done in a hurry, except flying from the plague or from quarrels, and catching fleas.
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- No meat ever remains in the shambles however bad it may be.
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- My No is as good as your Yes.
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- Love rules without rules. [Amore regge senza legge.]
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- Lay it on thick and some of it will stick.
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- It is not the long day, but the heart that does the work.
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- It is easy to threaten a bull from a window.
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- It is all one whether you die of sickness or of love.
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- If young men had wit and old men strength everything might be well done.
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- If someone betrays you once, it's his fault. If he betrays you twice, it's your fault.
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- Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.
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- Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world.
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- To make the cart go you must grease the wheels.
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- Tie me hand and foot and throw me among my own people.
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- There is no worse robber than a bad book.
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- There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.
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