If you continually harvest without fertilizing the land will soon be exhausted and you'll have bad years.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, bad, contentment
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When the screech-owl sings, you can try to go to work for someone else if you're working for a bad owner.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about work, bad luck, bad, contentment
Choose her for her beauty and even choose her without a dowry because from her beauty you'll get pleasure.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about beauty, pleasure, contentment
Don't leave the small quantity to get the big quantity because you might lose the one as well as the other.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
The choice oil is from the surface, the best wine is from the middle, and the best honey is from the bottom.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wine
Don't confide secrets to your wife, don't rent if your house has a pergola, don't have cops as a godfathers.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wife, home, house
When the moon is pale, it will rain; when it's red, it will be windy and when it's clear, it will be serene.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about moon, rain
If the young had the motivation and the old had the strength, there'd be nothing that couldn't be accomplished.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about motivation, nothing, old, olderness
It's a great advantage to love someone in your neighborhood: you see each other often and you don't have to travel.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love, contentment
The cowherd who has fodder has bread, and if he doesn't have fodder then he ends up without oxen and without bread.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about end
Nunziata, fix the salad, a little vinegar, lots of oil, four reckless mouthfuls, and then some drinks from the jug.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The ideal is a four year old dog, an eight year old horse, an eighteen year old woman and a twenty eight year old man.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about ideal, old, olderness, woman, man
The man who marries gives up liberty and accepts responsibility and it's said: The poor guy, who would have thought it.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about liberty, thinking, man
If you want to be happy, love the one who loves you, because it's a waste of time to love someone who doesn't love you.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love, waste, happiness, time, contentment
Don't go to the doctor for every malady, nor to the lawyer for every disagreement, nor to the fountain for every thirst.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about malady
When the ripened ears are full and fall over, as if in sleep, the farmer awakens, that is to say, he begins the harvest.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sleep, fall
If she's a nun in the abbey, she treats Jesus as an owner, but if she's a nun in the home, she serves Jesus and kisses him.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about kiss, home
When it rains in the morning, take the plow and start sowing; when it rains between Vespers and nightfall, put on your boots.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The oil merchant handles gold and diamonds; the grain merchant does business with silver, but the wine merchant is a poor man.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about affair, wine, man
If you don't know by age twenty, don't do by age thrity, don't have by age forty, you will never know, never do, and never have.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about age, olderness, contentment
