Proverbs and old sayings Italian, page 90

1826 proverbs and old sayings italian

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about courage

The Italians are wise before the act, the Germans in the act, the French after the act.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The woman who gives is seldom good; the woman who accepts is in the power of the giver.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about woman, power, good, good luck

Vexations, duly borne, Are but as trials, which heaven's love to man Sends for his good.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about love, good, good luck, man

The pitcher that goes often to the fountain leaves there either its handle or its spout.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

You have nobody to blame but yourself if you stumble more than once over the same stump.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A good horse and a bad horse need the spur; a good woman and a bad woman need the stick.

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

He's a friend at sneezing-time--the most that can be got from him is a God bless you.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about time, god

If you stumble more than once over the same stump, you have no one to blame but yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He is well constituted who grieves not for what he has not, and rejoices for what he has.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A fool throws a stone into a well, and it requires a hundred wise men to get it out again.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about faith, wealth

Proverbs bear age, and he who would do well may view himself in them as in a looking glass.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about age, olderness

The fox advised the others to cut off their tails, because he had left his own in the trap.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A mule that thinks he is a stag discovers his mistake when he comes to leap over the ditch.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about mistake

If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough, someone will say it's women's work.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about work

The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about danger

A book whos sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

There is no beard so well shaven but another barber will find something more to shave from it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian