Proverbs and old sayings Italian, page 78

1826 proverbs and old sayings italian

The election of the abbot is not stopped for want of a monk.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Home, dear home, small as thou art, to me thou art a palace.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about art, magic, home

The bell does not go to mass, and yet calls every one to it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about need, eyes

Patience is a plant that does not grow in everyone's garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about patience, garden

Never point out the mistakes of another with a dirty finger.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Every one likes justice in another's house, none in his own.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about justice, home, house

The smoke of my own house is better than another man's fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about smoke, fire, fire brigade, home, house, man

In the country of the blind blessed is he that hath one eye.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about country, blind

No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

To censure princes is perilous, and to praise them is lying.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about lie, praise

God save me from a bad neighbor and a beginner on the fiddle.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bad luck, god, bad

A fool can ask more questions than seven wise men can answer.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

When there is little bread at table put plenty on your plate.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He who does the wrong forgets it, but not he who receives it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bad

He that seeks, finds, and sometimes what he would rather not.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He who eats pears with his master should not choose the best.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He that has a head of glass must not throw stones at another.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads

If you dig a pit for others, you might fall into it yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fall