Proverbs and old sayings, page 1263

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about garden

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold his tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He ought not to complain of the sea who returns to it a second time.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about time

When the lion's skin falls short, piece it out with that of the fox.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Hide not the truth from your confessor, your doctor, or your lawyer.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about truth

Wolves have howled at the moon for centuries, yet it is still there.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about moon

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about world, things

When the ship has sunk everyone knows how she might have been saved.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Corsairs against corsairs, there is nothing to win but empty barrels.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about nothing

He who makes an idol of his interest makes a martyr of his integrity.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about integrity, interest

I protect myself from my enemies; may God protect me from my friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about enemies, god

He who is born with a weak intellect and a goiter can never be cured.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He that buys the office of magistrate must of necessity sell justice.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about justice, commerce

He who tells his own affairs will hardly keep secret those of others.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about secret

God save you from a bad neighbour, and from a beginner on the fiddle.

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

The bucket goes so often to the well that it leaves its handle there.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Many a one leaves the roast who afterwards longs for the smoke of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about smoke

Between two cowards, the first to detect the other has the advantage.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

It is not necessary to fish up every bucket that falls into the well.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fishing

If you want to buy love, love itself is the price you'll have to pay.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about love, commerce, contentment