Proverbs and old sayings, page 1896

43574 proverbs and old sayings

When a rich man comes to bad times, he doesn't know what to do.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, bad luck, bad, man

It's a good marriage when he's twenty eight and she's eighteen.

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

Better to die and have something to leave than to live wanting.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about death

Who practices with the lame will be able to limp within a year.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

With death you don't lose hope: damnation is called separation.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about hope, death, contentment

Palermo for its illustrious writers and Messina for its harbor.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about writers

In old age your strength decreases and your appetite increases.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about olderness, age, old

When the hunting dog barks it's a signal that the prey is near.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

To be rich with bees and mares, is to be rich and have nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, nothing

The mother bears the daughter and the neighbor marries her off.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about mother

For the man a great sweat, for the woman a great physical pain.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about pain, woman, man

When God wants to help you, he comes all the way to your house.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about help, home, house, god, contentment

Neither the baskets of the farmer nor the baskets of the abbey.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Who gets angry without reason, makes peace without satisfaction.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about reason, peace

A woman who counsels you either puts you in a skirt or a bridle.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman, contentment

Castedduvitranu, Castelvetrano, rich in eggplants and good wine.

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

God save us from a mistaken summons and poorly informed justice.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about justice, god

Whoever sows alongside the road, tires the oxen and wastes seed.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Donkeys and women, beat them with a stick, to keep them at task.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Bitter things, hold them dear; sweet things, keep them enclosed.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about things, bitter