Proverbs and old sayings, page 1253

43575 proverbs and old sayings

One who speaks fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about word, contentment

Take care you don't let your tail be caught in the door.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contentment

Who laughs at others' ills, has his own behind the door.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A kiss without a moustache is like beef without mustard.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about kiss

The pope and a peasant know more than the pope together.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about peasantry

There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about marriage

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wealth, world

Better be the head of a lizard than the tail of a dragon.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads

No sooner is the law made than its evasion is discovered.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about law

One's own spurs and another's horse make the miles short.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wealth, world

Who goes himself is in earnest, who sends is indifferent.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A good paymaster does not hesitate to give good security.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about security, good, good luck

He who has a mind to beat a dog will easily find a stick.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about mind

You must grease the wheels if you would have the car run.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contentment

He who has been stung by a serpent is afraid of a lizard.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

As soon as a new law is made, a way around it is devised.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about law

Marriages are not as they are made, but as they turn out.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

To have eye one on the cat and another on the frying-pan.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about impossible