Sicilian Proverbs (1198 Proverbs)
- The poor didn't have but gave to charity.
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- The satiated don't believe the hungry.
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- The turtle is not afraid of hail stones.
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- The yawn doesn't lie: it wants you to eat or sleep.
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- There isn't a Pentecost without a Sirocco nor a woman without a bow.
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- To appear and not to be is like weaving and not making cloth.
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- True wisdom is born with white hair.
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- We have but one soul to lose.
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- When cranes migrate, bad weather can't be far off.
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- When the crane passes, urge the oxen on.
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- When the rooster crows off the hour, don't hesitate to adjust the time.
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- When you have money you live happily, when you don't you lose your friends
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- When you're travelling, don't speak poorly of your neighbor.
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- Who builds on sand, the fall is near.
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- Who fails to listen to his elders, will hang his knapsack in the wrong place.
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- Who hopes for alms from the priests, winds up at the insane asylum.
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- Who openly admires, will not buy.
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- Who sins and then makes amends, trusts in God.
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- Whoever cultivates clay, harvests silk.
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- Wine is as sweet as honey but it can be abused.
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- Women, fire, and the sea are perilous for man.
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- You don't cast a net into a river that has no fish.
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- You'll begin to be rich when you learn to scorn riches.
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- A couple married on Monday is headed for a fall.
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- A high price moderates desire.
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- A neat house and a messy vineyard.
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- A son who is a priest is the wealth of a house.
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- A woman who dresses up and puts on makeup is either in love or a clean whore.
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- Ahi! I'm dying! Give me a hot water bottle and a cloak.
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- An old sin, a new sentence.
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- At C?ccamu there are the boors at Termini the brunette slaves; and at Palermo long-stemmed roses, beautiful on the outside and rotten on the inside.
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- Before it's ready to eat the fig must be mature, dripping, with a bent neck and a thin skin.
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- Better to die in the clutches of the lion than under the tail of a jackass.
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- Buy good quality and sell at the market price.
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- Choose an old doctor and a new pharmacist.
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- Cover a dog bite with fur.
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- Do as I say and not as I do.
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- Don't celebrate promises, and don't fear threats.
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- Don't lend out something that you're going to soon need.
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- Don't put yourself on a par with your betters.
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- During April rainfalls the pig gets butchered, the oxen gets fattened and the sheep laughs.
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- Eating makes crumbs.
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- Everyone thinks of his own gain, and plays in this way to deceive his companion.
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- For sulphur, wheat, wine, and wool, come to the towns of Sicily.
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- Give monks a wide berth, and as for priests just attend Mass.
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- God save us from a mistaken summons and poorly informed justice.
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- Having a priest in the house is paradise on earth.
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- How can you get smallpox in old age?
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- If the mare jumps, the filly will jump higher.
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- If you don't plant, you get nothing.
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- If you put seeds where there are rushes you won't gather toasties.
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- If you want to live to be old you need to start early.
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- In July, store the grain under the bed.
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- It's a bad sign when the sick person tosses and turns in bed.
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- It's useless to give advice opposing God.
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- Late marriages, premature orphans.
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- Love entered and you didn't realize it: you wanted to drive it out but you couldn't.
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- Mallow will cure you.
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- Men in glass houses should not throw stones.
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- No one does something for nothing.
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- Olives harvested with a heavy staff will produce poor tasting oil.
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- Only Sperlinga said no.
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- Pigs and children will turn out the way you teach them.
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- Quickly, quickly because the wax is melting.
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- Salt comes from the sea and every bad thing comes from the woman.
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- Sickness is awful, but a relapse is worse.
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- Strive to be that which you want to appear to be.
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- The bands of Palermo and the privileges of Messina.
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- The creditor gets a pledge from the good payer.
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- The gluttony of the monk and the appetite of the priest.
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- A deadly sin can't be concealed.
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- A hitch makes a calf, a sty makes a pig, the open field makes lamb, the hay barn makes a kid goat.
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- A new doctor is a plague on the country.
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- A spirited horse, a compliant; an aggressive man, a compliant horse.
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- A woman who hugs and squeezes you has deceived you or is seeking to deceive you.
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- 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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