Proverbs and old sayings, page 1261

43575 proverbs and old sayings

You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contentment

Don't let the peasant know how good the cheese with the pears is.

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

That happens in a moment which may not happen in a hundred years.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about moment

The dying cannot leave their wisdom or experience to their heirs.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about experience, wisdom

Many return from the war who cannot give an account of the battle.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about war

God save us from the enriched poor and from the impoverished rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wealth, god

Eat and drink with your relatives, but do business with strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about affair, drinking

When the wind is in the east, 'tis neither good for man nor beast.

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

If you have a good cellar at home don't go drinking at the tavern.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking, home, good, good luck, contentment

Better to ride an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He that exceeds his commission must answer for it at his own cost.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

There is never a cry of Wolf! but the wolf is in the district.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The fool knows more in his own house than the sage in other men's.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, house, man

St. Francis shaved himself first, and then he shaved his brethren.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Absence is a foe to love; away from the eyes, away from the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about eyes, heart, love

The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about shadow

Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Friendships are cheap when they can be brought by doffing the hat.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about peasantry

He is the world's master who despises it, its slave who prizes it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about world