A hitch makes a calf, a sty makes a pig, the open field makes lamb, the hay barn makes a kid goat.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Proverbs and old sayings, page 1913
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Who has many comforts and does not use them, won't find a confessor who will grant him absolution.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about absolution, use
When you go to steal a sheep and you're succeeding, take a big one because the small one will grow.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
From twenty to thirty, neither pulling nor pushing, from thirty on up a woman is of no further use.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about use, woman
A sick person can eat a fig that's ringed with a crown; the burgisotta fig is a treat for the girl.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people
You drive a donkey with a stick, an ox and a mule with a prod, and the horse with a whip and spurs.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
As you pay the price with the fertilizer, the hoe and pruning determines the harvest of the olives.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
There are three who have to give an accounting to God; the judges, the priests, and the godparents.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about judges, god
When the fields are flooded you'll have hunger, when they're snow covered there'll be plenty to eat.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about hunger, contentment
Prepare the sickles in May, use the sickles in June, and in July carry the sickles to the tool shed.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about tools, use
When in March sun and water are taking turns with water and sun, the mules end up doing the carrying.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sun, water, end
The rich man breaks through the mesh and escapes, the afflicted man remains in the net and is caught.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man
Don't tell your friend everything that you know; remember that one day you may have him for an enemy.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about enemies, day, contentment
The young man plays the flute, the middle aged man plays the harpsichord, the old man plays the organ.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man, old, olderness
Eat little and you'll live, speak little and you'll get it right, spend little and you'll become rich.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rightness, wealth, contentment
If you show a rich man kindness, you gain nothing, but when you wrong him he avenges himself instantly.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad, wealth, nothing, contentment, man
Who has never had good sense, and by age thirty still doesn't, certainly will never have it after that.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about common sense, sense, age, olderness, good, good luck
Three things make a man rich: Earning and not spending, promising and not doing, buying and not selling.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, things, man
An evening rainbow means good weather in the morning, a rainbow in the morning fills wells and fountains.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about weather, good, good luck
God save you from narrow doorways, a caning, stones thrown at the blind and the weighing of shop keepers.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about blind, god, contentment
