He who builds on another's ground loses his stone and mortar.
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Little children and headaches, great children and heartaches.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about children
Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about numbers, companies, man, good, good luck
He who would have clear water should go to the fountain head.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads, water
When God punishes a land, he deprives it's leaders of wisdom.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wisdom, god
He who wrongs someone has to expect something in retaliation.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
A scorpion never stung me but I cured myself with its grease.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
Of the great and of the dead either speak will or say nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about nothing
Who gives bread to other's dogs is often barked at by her own.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about smoke, home, house, woman, man, water
From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about garden
Nothing improves the taste of pasta more than a good appetite.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about nothing, good, good luck
God sends us the meat, but it is the Devil who sends us cooks.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about kitchen, devil, god
Go to the square and ask advice; go home and do what you like.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about advice, home
Speak well of your friend; of your enemy neither well nor ill.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about enemies
Great cry and little wool, as the man said who shaved the sow.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man
Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about mind, people
Tell everybody your business and the devil will do it for you.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about affair, devil
Trust not the praise of a friend nor the contempt of an enemy.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contempt, praise, enemies
A thing is never much talked of but there is some truth in it.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about things, truth
