Vegetable garden and mill, don't tell your neighbor how much they yield.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about garden
Proverbs and old sayings, page 1903
43574 proverbs and old sayings
It's useless to change your state, if you don't have luck in your favor.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about state, change, bad luck, good luck, contentment
Palermitani, two tar? s for the bread drippings and two grains for bread.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Crowd around for the getting, move out of the way when it's time to pay.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about time
Completing a transaction with money borrowed at usury is a bad purchase.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about money, bad luck, bad
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 about contentment
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, contentment
When the Sirocco blows in the winter, you can expect rain at any moment.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about moment, rain, contentment
You can tell an educated person by their talk and bells by their ringing.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people, contentment
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, contentment
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 contentment, 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
