Sicilian Proverbs (1198 Proverbs)
- If you want to die quickly, wash your head and go to sleep.
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- In August the lambs are slaughtered.
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- Involuntary love is worthless.
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- It's insane to oppose when you can neither win nor compromise.
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- Keep up with the times, don't stay in the dark.
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- Long service awaits rewards.
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- Love, everyone says it's bitter, but everyone wants to see for themselves if it's true.
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- Marry your children with their peers so you won't regret it someday.
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- Neither you happy nor I consoled.
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- Nunziata, fix the salad, a little vinegar, lots of oil, four reckless mouthfuls, and then some drinks from the jug.
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- One who believes everything he's told is as naive as one who fetches water with a sieve.
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- Peace won't settle where a woman rules.
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- Prune cherry and fig trees mercilessly.
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- Ride on the back of a mare, but on the shoulders of horses.
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- September brings acorn and olives.
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- Spend Easter and Christmas with whomever you want, but celebrate Mardi Gras with your own.
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- That which is written, is meant to be read.
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- The choice oil is from the surface, the best wine is from the middle, and the best honey is from the bottom.
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- The first seeding on the feast of All Saints and the last on the feast of Saint Andrew.
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- A Christian is more of a scoundrel than a rascal of a non-believer.
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- A good old man is better than a bad young man.
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- A man is a man to the extent that he sticks by his word.
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- A skinny pig is better than a fat chicken.
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- A woman in her thirties, throw her in the sea.
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- After Easter, there are no more prayers and no more lettuce.
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- An evening rainbow means good weather in the morning, a rainbow in the morning fills wells and fountains.
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- As the weather goes, so goes the patient.
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- Be friendly with everyone and counsel with few.
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- Better to be born a limpet in the sea, than a load bearing donkey.
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- Bread and wine strengthen the back.
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- Chestnut horses and surly men can't even cover expenses.
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- Cook in June and July, dish it out in August and September.
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- December takes but June repays you.
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- Don't be foolish and awe struck, because foolishness is telling but cursing doesn't hit home.
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- Don't join in the celebration or holiday if you feel disgruntled.
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- Don't preach, neither at home nor abroad.
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- Dress up once a year, and dress up in cloth.
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- Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
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- Every year after fifty brings ten ailments.
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- Flies don't get near a boiling pot.
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- From twenty to thirty, neither pulling nor pushing, from thirty on up a woman is of no further use.
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- God plays seriously, but He's a merciful father.
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- Grief for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
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- Honey is often bitter.
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- If Messina had gardens Palermo would be a bunch of poor country houses.
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- If you don't have money, you're not worth listening to.
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- If you leave the safe open even a saint will sin.
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- If you want to eat freshly caught fish, you don't want to have a tight purse.
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- In fair weather, in calm waters and in peaceful travel, even a coachman knows how to sail.
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- It is written in sacred scripture: where grass is growing you don't need fertilizer.
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- It's not polite to eat just the center of the cheese and just the crust of the bread.
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- Keep your feet on the ground and you'll lessen the pain.
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- Look at who I am and not who I was.
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- Lovers' quarrels increase love.
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- May waters drench peasants and lords or gentlemen, as many of them as it encounters.
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- Never trust your friend with a secret unless he is mute or a dog.
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- Nut and fig trees need to be pruned aggressively.
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- One who is never satisfied is always in need.
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- Pears, fill the chest; prunes, eat one.
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- Prune the vines on the January moon if you want to fill the casks.
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- Ring the bells for whoever eats snails and drinks water, because he's dead.
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- Serve the Lord and you'll see what pain is.
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- Spit at heaven and you'll get it back in your face.
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- The ancient motto says: When you can eat the figs, prune the fig trees.
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- The Church never gives anything away.
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- The fish was so fresh that it was being cooked while its tail was still in the sea.
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- A coddled cat doesn't catch mice.
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- A good rooster crows everywhere.
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- A man is never so ridiculous by those qualities that are his own as by those he affects to have.
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- A small indignity can destroy a great love.
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- A woman is like a cat: the more you pet her the better she feels.
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- Age and sins are more than are admitted.
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- An honest wife is a treasure that lasts, a sad wife is worse than the plague.
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- As you pay the price with the fertilizer, the hoe and pruning determines the harvest of the olives.
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- Be slow to reach for your purse and quick to tip your hat.
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- Better to be shot with a crossbow than rejected by a window slammed shut.
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- Break the soil when it's moist, plow with the warm weather, and do the seeding on time.
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- Chiaramonte, a mountain of gold, every woman is a treasure.
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- Cooked pumpkin stays hot for a long time.
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- Delicious things satiate little.
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