Proverbs and old sayings, page 1906

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Dig the hoe in well in the vineyard and pull out the bad growth and the weed.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, bad

A full ear requires three good things: good time, good seeds and good hoeing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about good, good luck, things, time

A woman who dresses up and puts on makeup is either in love or a clean whore.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman, love

Who makes the hundred and not the one, loses the hundred because of that one.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

God save me from false friends, so that I can protect myself from my enemies.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about enemies, god

God save us from four people: doctors, notaries, pharmacists, and bad bosses.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, people, bad luck, god, bad

An honest wife is a treasure that lasts, a sad wife is worse than the plague.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wife, treasure

As Maguni the Carthaginian used to say: work to the vineyard, mind the store.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about stores, mind, work

A contented stomach, a forgiving heart; but an empty stomach pardons nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heart, nothing

The real cost for both a neat house and a well kept vineyard is incalculable.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about real estate, home, house

Everyone wants to go to heaven; the desire is there but the fortitude is not.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The vine always says to his uncle Frank: Make me poor and I'll make you rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, contentment

Confessions without contrition, and prayers without intentions are time lost.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about time

If you don't collect the sheep early, you get neither the sheep nor the wool.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

If you want to eat freshly caught fish, you don't want to have a tight purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about fishing, contentment

The weak who opposes the strong, is like the jug that collides with the wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

If it's a cock it will crow and crow, if it's a chicken it will peck its hip.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Who fails to listen to his elders, will hang his knapsack in the wrong place.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad

If you prune in April you'll fill your barrels not with wine, but with water.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wine, water, contentment

Wealth and holiness, believe only half, if you believe less, you'll do better.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about faith, wealth, contentment