Proverbs and old sayings, page 1900

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Who hopes for alms from the priests, winds up at the insane asylum.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The best of all worlds: A sunny Christmas and a log fire on Easter.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about christmas, fire, fire brigade

Who wants to chase two rabbits, will get neither one nor the other.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

A spirited horse, a compliant; an aggressive man, a compliant horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man

The haughty broad bean flowers and climbs but produces little fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about proudness, flowers

Every little love captured as a playful spark becomes a great flame.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love

There are a hundred owners besides you until the wheat is harvested.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

A house that is not seen by the sun, is visited often by the doctor.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sun, home, house

When you see many dogs at a bone, it's best to make yourself scarce.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

If February isn't cold and rainy, the March landscape will be green.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Marry your children with their peers so you won't regret it someday.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about regret, children, contentment

You find snails on the mountain slope with the dew from the ravines.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

You fool an old woman once; the next time she shuts the door on you.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman, time, contentment, old, olderness

The horse chained to the feeding trough and the mare in the thicket.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Where there's a senior the minor yields, said the chick in the cage.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

She has a great marriage without a mother-in-law or a sister-in-law.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about law, marriage, mother

There isn't a Pentecost without a Sirocco nor a woman without a bow.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman

April makes the flowers and the beauty, but May gets all the credit.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about flowers, beauty

If you want to have a happy life, stay far away from your relatives.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about happiness, life, contentment

Who doesn't approach with disbelief, won't see the face of paradise.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about paradise, face