Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian, page 50

1208 proverbs and old sayings sicilian

When you have money you live happily, when you don't you lose your friends

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about money

Believe half what's recounted, the less you believe, the better you'll do.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about faith

When the ear of corn hangs to the side the farmer watches it with comfort.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Messina is clever, Palermo is pompous; Messina is rich, Palermo is greedy.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about intelligence, wealth

You need to first experience adversity, before you can handle high praise.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about experience, praise, need

When you uproot vines as you plant vines, you'll never harvest the grapes.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When you want to serve your friend, you can't worry about your belongings.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about worry

The meat from the castrated, from wherever you take it you trick yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Mountains will never join other mountains but men will confront other men.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man

Tie the donkey where the owner wants, and let the wolf come to devour him.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

If you want to know if someone has money, observe his beard and his boots.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about money

Better the bad one from a good breed than the better one from a bad breed.

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

Ring the bells for whoever eats snails and drinks water, because he's dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about water

Better to be wrongfully excommunicated than to make a death bed confession.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about confession, death

Whoever sows within the vineyard, neither reaps a crop nor harvests grapes.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Better to die in the clutches of the lion than under the tail of a jackass.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about death

The young cock said to the young chicken: the whole world is like our home.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about home, world

Oh, oh, oh! three times I say it, who falls into poverty loses his friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about poverty

When you try to walk the straight and narrow you get pebbles in your shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Walls don't have ears but they hear, they don't have mouths but they speak.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian