Proverbs and old sayings, page 1258

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Who gives bread to other's dogs is often barked at by her own.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about smoke, home, house, woman, man, water

From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about garden

Nothing improves the taste of pasta more than a good appetite.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about nothing, good, good luck

God sends us the meat, but it is the Devil who sends us cooks.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about kitchen, devil, god

Go to the square and ask advice; go home and do what you like.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about advice, home, contentment

Speak well of your friend; of your enemy neither well nor ill.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about enemies

Great cry and little wool, as the man said who shaved the sow.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about mind, people

Tell everybody your business and the devil will do it for you.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about affair, devil, contentment

A thing is never much talked of but there is some truth in it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about things, truth

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about diets, quiet

It takes four living men to carry one dead man out of a house.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man, home, house

Who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about rocks

It is better to hear the nightingale sing than the mouse gnaw.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Stones or bread, one must have something in hand for the dogs.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He who makes himself a servant is expected to remain a servant.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about experience, contentment

Experience runs a valuable school, but fools learn in no other.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about school, experience

Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, man