Completing a transaction with money borrowed at usury is a bad purchase.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about money, bad luck, bad
Proverbs and old sayings, page 1903
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If the dowry doesn't support her, even the executioner is disinterested.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about executioners
Don't have anything to do with the cavalier who has fallen into poverty.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about poverty
In the countryside eat cardoon, because at the castle you'll eat pigeon.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
April is the time for the fava, but if not here, then surely by the sea.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about time
If you want to stay full of good health, always eat eggs and drink wine.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about drinking, wine, good, good luck
When the Sirocco blows in the winter, you can expect rain at any moment.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about moment, rain
You can tell an educated person by their talk and bells by their ringing.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people
Better to be shot with a crossbow than rejected by a window slammed shut.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
When a rich man caresses a poor man, he's going to take advantage of him.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man
Don't pass judgement on a work of art if you don't know how to create it.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about art, magic, work
Man is like the sea: if he doesn't produce today, he'll produce tomorrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man
Petrafendola from Modica, Bread from Ragusa, and olives from Chiaramonte.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
If they are roses they will blossom, if they are thorns, they will prick.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The good that you scoff at and ignore, you'll recognize when you lose it.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about good, good luck
A wounded head can be treated and heals, but a wounded heart never heals.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, heart
Don't sleep on the ground during those months that are spelled with an r.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sleep
The laying hen says: give me feed to fill my beak and I'll give you eggs.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
What has the rooster of Sciacca been reduced to, to be pecked by the hen.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The rose that's not considered, has been smelled or picked or defoliated.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
