Proverbs and old sayings, page 1901

43574 proverbs and old sayings

The husbands belong to the wives and hookers are for the wild beast.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Don't let yourself get far away from your jackasses, women, and oxen.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

You'll realize he was a friend when you lose him and see him no more.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

God protect us from the Sicilian cop especially if he's from Palermo.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about police, god

You're wasting your time trying to interest the old in new endeavors.

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

If you go fishing and catch nothing, go to the henhouse and get eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about fishing, trap, nothing, contentment

Overwhelming courtesy raises concern that you may be being deceitful.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about worry, being, contentment

When there's a clear horizon in winter, there'll be the devil to pay.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about devil

The man who chases mules and believes women will never get to Heaven.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man

Everything goes down the slope and everyone is inclined to the worst.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When sweethearts want each other, the parents must inevitably accede.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about parents

It takes bales of hundredweight because a fire of straw lasts little.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about fire, fire brigade

Take care of the manger and water the animals at the drinking trough.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about animals, drinking, water

From September to August drink the old wine and leave the must to age.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about olderness, age, drinking, wine, old

The gallows is not made for the rich, but for the head of the peasant.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about peasantry, wealth, heads

With a clear Sirocco and a dark North Wind, go to sea without concern.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about worry, dark

If between friends there is not equality, there won't be perfect love.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about equality, perfection, love

When the dripping continues it succeeds in piercing the hardest stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

To ward off the boredom of life, eat snails in May and fish in August.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about boredom, fishing, life

When birds aren't making a mess it's a sign that it's been a bad year.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, bad