Proverbs and old sayings, page 1268

43575 proverbs and old sayings

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Good riding at two anchors men have told, For it one break, the other yet may hold.

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

Love, should i escape your snares, i doubt that i can be trapped by any other means.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about doubt, love

He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A sailor must have his eye trained to the rocks and sands as well as the north star.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about rocks, celebrity

He has done like the Perugian who, when his head was broken, ran home for his helmet.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, heads

A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about conduct, pleasure, wisdom, man

When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

A dog that bites silently. [An insidious tradcuer. He would kill you with an air-gun. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about air, contentment

If someone betrays you once, it's his fault. If he betrays you twice, it's your fault.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contentment

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thinking

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about courage, contentment

The Italians are wise before the act, the Germans in the act, the French after the act.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contentment

The woman who gives is seldom good; the woman who accepts is in the power of the giver.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about woman, power, good, good luck

Vexations, duly borne, Are but as trials, which heaven's love to man Sends for his good.

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

The pitcher that goes often to the fountain leaves there either its handle or its spout.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

You have nobody to blame but yourself if you stumble more than once over the same stump.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contentment

A good horse and a bad horse need the spur; a good woman and a bad woman need the stick.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about need, woman, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

He's a friend at sneezing-time--the most that can be got from him is a God bless you.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about time, god, contentment