Proverbs and old sayings, page 1244

43575 proverbs and old sayings

A dog is never offended at being pelted with bones.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about being

At the end of the game you'll see who's the winner.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about games, end, contentment

The common soldier's blood makes the general great.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about common sense, blood

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

You must marry a widow while she is still mourning.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contentment

He that makes himself dirt is trod on by the swine.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Let us first catch the bear and then sell its skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce, trap

Handsome is not what is handsome, but what pleases.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The end of the pig is the beginning of the sausage.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about beginning, end

A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

Criminals are punished, that others may be amended.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about criminals

A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wine, day

No good thing is failure and no evil thing success.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about failure, things, success, good, good luck

The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about eyes

When your devil was born, mine was going to school.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about school, devil

He is happy that knows not himself to be otherwise.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about happiness

If you want the daughter, you must kiss the mother.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about kiss, mother, contentment

Better one day as a lion than a hundred as a sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about day

Absence is a foe to love; out of sight out of mind.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about mind, love

Let every one keep off the flies with his own tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian