Proverbs and old sayings Italian, page 75

1826 proverbs and old sayings italian

A good paymaster does not hesitate to give good security.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about security, good, good luck

He who has a mind to beat a dog will easily find a stick.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about mind

You must grease the wheels if you would have the car run.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He who has been stung by a serpent is afraid of a lizard.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

As soon as a new law is made, a way around it is devised.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about law

Marriages are not as they are made, but as they turn out.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

To have eye one on the cat and another on the frying-pan.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about impossible

Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about garden, patience

Save something for the man that rides on the white horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

Tell everybody your business and they will do it for you.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about affair

Who throws a stone at the sky, it falls back on his head.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sky, heads

He who has the Pope for a cousin soon becomes a Cardinal.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

When rogues go in procession the devil carries the cross.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about devil

There is no dog, be he ever so wicked, but wags his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He who would be rich in a year gets hanged in six months.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wealth

The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The mouse does not leave the cat's house with a bellyful.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, house

It is not the long day, but the heart that does the work.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about work, heart, day

It is better to have a husband without love than jealous.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about husband, love