Proverbs and old sayings, page 1882

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Don't celebrate promises, and don't fear threats.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about fear

Death finds everyone and the earth renews itself.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about earth, death

Man loses his good judgement over women and wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wine, good, good luck, man

Think back, old trunk, to when you were a sprout.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about old, olderness, contentment

Pigeon and chick, by your beak you attain beauty.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about beauty, contentment

There's nothing fixed under the sky and the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about moon, sky, nothing

You need plant only one cherry and one plum tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about need, contentment

With the hammer's blows the defects become known.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about defects

Do good and forget it, do bad and think about it.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When your neighbor burns down, your hurt is near.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Don't fight with someone who has nothing to lose.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about fight, nothing

If you leave the safe open even a saint will sin.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about saints, sin, contentment

Better a poor husband than a lover who's a baron.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about husband

Nut and fig trees need to be pruned aggressively.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about need

Not all the spikes of wheat go on the wheat pile.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Good land and a good wife bring a man well-being.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about being, wife, good, good luck, man

For women the highest state is the married state.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about state

Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When you can't do what you want, do what you can.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment