Proverbs and old sayings, page 1257

43575 proverbs and old sayings

In the country of the blind blessed is he that hath one eye.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about country, blind

No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

To censure princes is perilous, and to praise them is lying.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about lie, praise

God save me from a bad neighbor and a beginner on the fiddle.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bad luck, god, bad

A fool can ask more questions than seven wise men can answer.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

When there is little bread at table put plenty on your plate.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He who does the wrong forgets it, but not he who receives it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bad

He that seeks, finds, and sometimes what he would rather not.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He who eats pears with his master should not choose the best.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He that has a head of glass must not throw stones at another.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads

If you dig a pit for others, you might fall into it yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fall, contentment

He who builds on another's ground loses his stone and mortar.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Little children and headaches, great children and heartaches.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about children

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about numbers, companies, man, good, good luck, contentment

He who would have clear water should go to the fountain head.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads, water

When God punishes a land, he deprives it's leaders of wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wisdom, god

He who wrongs someone has to expect something in retaliation.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A scorpion never stung me but I cured myself with its grease.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Of the great and of the dead either speak will or say nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about nothing