When the ox is at the slaughterhouse everyone comes running with their knives.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
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1208 proverbs and old sayings sicilian
When the partridge sings in the stone quarry bring the wood into the haystack.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Choose bread with eyes, cheese without eyes and wine that makes your eyes pop.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about eyes, wine
The world is a wheel, there are some at the top and some who go to the bottom.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about world
There are two powers to contend with, those with a lot and those with nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about nothing
Make your testimony and confessions while you're eating sausages and macaroni.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Seed ground that has been fallow, not ground that has just yielded fruitfully.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Don't retest the tested because the more you test it, the worse it will appear.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about tests
Happy are those who are well born, but happier are those who have a good death.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about happiness, death, good, good luck
You get more from a few good animals than from the many that are poorly grazed.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about animals, good, good luck
Sister Nicola said: Don't put the pasta basket in the water until it's boiling.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about water
Horses should be bays, jackasses should be greys, and mules should be blackish.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Who fails to show restraint in their youth, will be miserable in their old age.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about olderness, youth, age, old
A woman who hugs and squeezes you has deceived you or is seeking to deceive you.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman
The boss said to the servant, when there isn't what you want, eat what there is.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads
Who has convenience and doesn't seize it, tie him to a stall and give him straw.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Drink coffee while it's hot enough to make you swear but let the chocolate cool.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about drinking
Everyone thinks of his own gain, and plays in this way to deceive his companion.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The horns of the sister are horns of gold; the horns of the wife are true horns.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wife
It's dumb to put snow on the kitchen spit, the snow melts and the fire goes out.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about kitchen, fire, fire brigade
