Do a good job of rooting out the turf and you'll prosper enough to enjoy focaccia.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about good, good luck, contentment
Proverbs and old sayings, page 1909
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When you think you have the wind at your back, that's when you'll be disappointed.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
A red sky means either water or wind; if it doesn't rain, it will be fair weather.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about weather, rain, sky, water
You don't spin, you don't weave, or wind, so where did you get this pile of money?
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about money, contentment
The pig says: give to me and I'll give to you, don't tell me how long it's taking.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
Who waits hoping in plans and dreams, loses time, and collects flies and troubles.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about problems, dream, time
Who doesn't make a knot at the end of the thread, loses the stitch more than once.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about end
To recognize a real friend, you have to together have eaten three bushels of salt.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about real estate, contentment
Who drinks at night, buys himself death, who drinks in bed, buys himself a coffin.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about night, death
The fish was so fresh that it was being cooked while its tail was still in the sea.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about being, fishing
Luck is the friend of jackasses and the crazy; it's a mortal enemy of the virtuous.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, good luck, enemies
Uncollected olives, left at random fill neither the saddle bag nor the little sack.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Priests dressed in black bring bad tidings, in white they take you to the cemetery.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about magic, bad luck, bad, contentment
Don't maintain a friendship with cops because you'll lose your wine and your cigars.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about friendship, wine, contentment
Collect promptly, pay slowly; who knows, in case of an accident, you'll pay nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about nothing, contentment
If you invest a lot but don't maintain it, you won't even harvest enough to re-seed.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
It is written in sacred scripture: where grass is growing you don't need fertilizer.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about need, contentment
Love entered and you didn't realize it: you wanted to drive it out but you couldn't.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love, contentment
May waters drench peasants and lords or gentlemen, as many of them as it encounters.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
If you don't want anyone to take your place, don't ever show that you're frightened.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
