Whoever goes to Palermo and doesn't see Monreale, goes there a jackass and returns a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Proverbs and old sayings, page 1911
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When you have brains to go along with your wealth you can call yourself happy and content.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, happiness, contentment
The bed of the Dominicans, the table of the Capuccins, and the luxury of the Benedictines.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
In fair weather, in calm waters and in peaceful travel, even a coachman knows how to sail.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about weather
Spend Easter and Christmas with whomever you want, but celebrate Mardi Gras with your own.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about christmas, contentment
We keep an eye on the scorpion and the serpent, but we do not watch out for the millipede.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The olive grove of your grandfather, the cherry trees of your father, and your grape vines.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
In Polizzi you'll find water, fog, kites, priests with children, commissions and delegates.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about children, water, contentment
The man with a fixed income lives with anxiety and suffers as the costs of goods fluctuate.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man
Prepare the fallow field well enough and you'll be free to go off and gather the hemp ties.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
During April rainfalls the pig gets butchered, the oxen gets fattened and the sheep laughs.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Better a woman who is dark-skinned and gracious, than one who is light-skinned and insipid.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about dark, light, woman
If you want to experience the pains of hell, spend winter in Messina and summer in Palermo.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about experience, hell, contentment
If you marry you'll suffer in your youth, if you don't marry you'll suffer in your old age.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about suffering, olderness, youth, age, contentment, old
Capacious as the sleeve of a monk and patient as the priest with his arms across his chest.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The promises of love and the smoke of a chimney, washed by water and blown away by the wind.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about smoke, water, love
To get the best dowry, marry the poor man's first daughter but the rich man's last daughter.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man
Who seizes too much with his own hand, will have everything slip away and will hold nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about nothing
If you have to have animals in your house, don't have either a dog or a cat with a red coat.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about animals, home, house, contentment
Before it's ready to eat the fig must be mature, dripping, with a bent neck and a thin skin.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
