Proverbs and old sayings Italian, page 88

1826 proverbs and old sayings italian

He is miserable once, who feels it; but twice, who fear it before it comes.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fear

The point of the thorn is small, but hw who has felt it does not forget it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

It is a good horse that never stumbles, And a good wife that never grumbles.

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

Chastise the good and he will mend, chastise the bad and he will grow worse.

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

He is like the anchor that is always in the sea, yet does not learn to swim.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Who dangles after the great is the last at table and the first to be cuffed.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

There never was a shoe however handsome that did not become an ugly slipper.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for the weeds.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about plot, garden

It is better to ride a donkey that carries you than a horse that throws you.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A woman's in pain, a woman's in woe, a woman is ill, when she likes to be so.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about woman, pain

There is little peace in that house where the hen crows and the cock is mute.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about peace, home, house

He who builds a house in the market-place, builds either too high or too low.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about stores, home, house

You surround your vineyard with thorns - place doors and locks on your mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He who meddles in others people's affairs will be left with two of three parts.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about people

A woman who loves to be at the window is like a bunch of grapes on the wayside.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about woman

There is no use in saying, I will not go such a way, nor drink of such a water.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about use, drinking, water

If you throw money away with your hands, you will seek it later with your feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about money

Save a thief from the gallows and he'll be the first who shall cut your throat.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves

It is better if you could say Here he ran away than Here he was killed.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about revenge, time