Proverbs and old sayings Italian, page 83

1826 proverbs and old sayings italian

There is never a cry of Wolf! but the wolf is in the district.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The fool knows more in his own house than the sage in other men's.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, house, man

St. Francis shaved himself first, and then he shaved his brethren.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Absence is a foe to love; away from the eyes, away from the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about eyes, heart, love

The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about shadow

Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Friendships are cheap when they can be brought by doffing the hat.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about peasantry

He is the world's master who despises it, its slave who prizes it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about world

From snow whether cooked or pounded you will get nothing but water.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about nothing, water

He who has a glass roof should not throw stones at his neighbour's.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He who throws away money with his hands will seek it with his feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about money

He is a friend when you sneeze -- all he says is God bless you.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about god

A ragged sack holds no grain, a poor man is not taken into counsel.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about moral, man

All ships leak: some amidships, some in the bows, some in the hold.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about people, man

It is not spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about spring

He who buys what he cannot pay for, sells what he would rather not.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He is not a thorough wise man who cannot play the fool on occasion.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

If the hen had not cackled, we should not know she had laid an egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian