He who is an ass and thinks himself a stag, finds his mistake when he comes to leap the ditch.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about mistake
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A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man
He who wants milk should not sit in the middle of a field and wait for a cow to back up to him.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
The chamber-bell (chamber-clapper, or curtain lecture) is the worst sound one have in his ears.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
One with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the person ready to die.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about courage, world, people
If you let them put the calf on your shoulders, it will not be long before they clap on the cow.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
He who is an ass and takes himself to be a stag finds his mistake when he comes to leap the ditch.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about mistake
With art and knavery we live through half the year; with knavery and art we live through the other.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about art, magic
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about destruction, life
He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about companies, man
As both a good horse and a bad horse heed the spur, so both a good woman and a bad woman need the stick.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about woman, bad luck, bad, need, good, good luck
Nothing is ever well done in a hurry, except flying from the plague or from quarrels, and catching fleas.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about nothing
A priest is a man who is called Father by everyone except his own children who are obliged to call him Uncle.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about children, man
He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never be, nor ever know, nor ever have.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
He is a fool who boasts of four things: that he has good wine, a good horse, a handsome wife, and plenty of money.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wine, wife, good, good luck, things, money
Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about devil, things
Evening red and morning grey help the traveler on his way; evening grey and morning red bring down rain upon his head.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about help, rain, heads
To expect what never comes, to lie in bed and not sleep, to serve well and not be advanced, are three things to die of.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sleep, lie, things
A thing done has a head. (The exultation of an ancient sculptor on his satisfactorily completing the head of his statue. )
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about old, heads, things
