Sicilian Proverbs (1198 Proverbs)
- Alacci, remove the bones and be left with the bother.
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- An overbearing wife and a shouting husband will never be in peace.
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- At Caltagirone a hairy conscience and a crown with fifteen places.
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- Being in love with a married woman is living on borrowed time.
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- Better to die than to suffer.
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- Buyer beware.
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- Choose bread with eyes, cheese without eyes and wine that makes your eyes pop.
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- Crowd around for the getting, move out of the way when it's time to pay.
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- Do good and forget it, do bad and think about it.
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- Don't compromise your beliefs for money.
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- Don't let the chicken into the hen house in January.
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- Don't retest the tested because the more you test it, the worse it will appear.
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- During sickness, you recognize the value of good health.
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- Empty stalks from the Sirocco and full spikes of wheat with the North Wind.
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- Everyone wants to go to heaven; the desire is there but the fortitude is not.
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- For tender almonds go to Aragona, to see beautiful young girls go to Favara.
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- Giving promptly is like giving twice.
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- God save us from evil neighbors and from the indignation of the upright.
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- Having health without wealth is being half sick.
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- How much is prestige worth, not as much as Palermo, if you take away the saints.
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- If the mule isn't kicking, it's biting.
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- If you don't want anyone to take your place, don't ever show that you're frightened.
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- If you see a Greek and a wolf, avoid the wolf and shoot the Greek.
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- If you want to sell at a high price you'll earn little.
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- In May the horse gets fat, but if he doesn't get fat it's better to ditch him.
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- It's a good marriage when he's twenty eight and she's eighteen.
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- It's useless to tell the lame to run.
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- Latin hides the stupidity of the priest.
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- Love God with all your heart and ignore the gossip-mongers.
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- Man is a hunter.
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- Messina is clever, Palermo is pompous; Messina is rich, Palermo is greedy.
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- No one ever boasted without paying dearly.
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- On Saint Candelora day, if it's snowing or raining, there'll be another forty days of winter.
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- Open your eyes and your ears when contracting, because the agreed upon circumstances mean a lot.
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- Pilate was neither saved nor damned.
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- Rain and the hoe make onions.
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- Sardines in January and vopa in March.
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- Sickness, if it doesn't kill, it purifies.
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- Strong men, harmful at home.
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- The bankrupt merchant is half rich.
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- The devil knows a lot because he's old.
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- The good sailor is proven in a storm.
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- A dog for the mother, a horse for the father.
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- A horse without spurs is like a ship without a rudder.
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- A purchased vineyard is tantamount to a stolen vineyard.
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- A stone that gathers no moss will be washed away by the river.
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- A woman who is young and beautiful is never poor.
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- All a doctor's mistakes lie buried.
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- An unfullfilled vow is as if it had not been made.
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- At death, one's words and defects are buried.
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- Being overweight is being halfway sick.
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- Better to give than to receive.
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- Buying teaches you to sell and earning teaches you to spend.
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- Choose her for her beauty and even choose her without a dowry because from her beauty you'll get pleasure.
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- Cure catarrh with wine.
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- Do nothing and nothing will be known.
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- Don't confide secrets to your wife, don't rent if your house has a pergola, don't have cops as a godfathers.
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- Don't let yourself get far away from your jackasses, women, and oxen.
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- Don't say, don't go, to running dogs.
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- During the winter eat long fishes, during the summer eat short fishes.
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- Even a hundred people can't undress a nude.
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- Everything goes down the slope and everyone is inclined to the worst.
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- For the man a great sweat, for the woman a great physical pain.
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- Go early to the garden and the mill.
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- God save us from four people: doctors, notaries, pharmacists, and bad bosses.
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- Having vision as sharp as a kite and hearing as keen as a rabbit.
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- Hunger doesn't have to look for an appetite.
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- If the North Wind takes to blowing, it will rain for a week.
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- If you don't want it to be known, don't do it.
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- If you show a rich man kindness, you gain nothing, but when you wrong him he avenges himself instantly.
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- If you want to stay full of good health, always eat eggs and drink wine.
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- In old age your strength decreases and your appetite increases.
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- It's a great advantage to love someone in your neighborhood: you see each other often and you don't have to travel.
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- January chicks fill the hen house, August chicks fill the baskets.
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- Laughter without reason, is either crazy or stupid.
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- Love is apportioned, who brings it will have it brought.
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- Man is like the sea: if he doesn't produce today, he'll produce tomorrow.
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- Milk and wine together make an excellent poison.
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- No one is perfect.
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- On the new year daylight increases as much as a man's stride.
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