Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian, page 55

1208 proverbs and old sayings sicilian

Who doesn't make a knot at the end of the thread, loses the stitch more than once.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about end

To recognize a real friend, you have to together have eaten three bushels of salt.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about real estate

Who drinks at night, buys himself death, who drinks in bed, buys himself a coffin.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about night, death

The fish was so fresh that it was being cooked while its tail was still in the sea.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about being

Luck is the friend of jackasses and the crazy; it's a mortal enemy of the virtuous.

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

Uncollected olives, left at random fill neither the saddle bag nor the little sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Priests dressed in black bring bad tidings, in white they take you to the cemetery.

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

Don't maintain a friendship with cops because you'll lose your wine and your cigars.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about friendship, wine

Collect promptly, pay slowly; who knows, in case of an accident, you'll pay nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about nothing

If you invest a lot but don't maintain it, you won't even harvest enough to re-seed.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

It is written in sacred scripture: where grass is growing you don't need fertilizer.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about need

Love entered and you didn't realize it: you wanted to drive it out but you couldn't.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love

May waters drench peasants and lords or gentlemen, as many of them as it encounters.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

If you don't want anyone to take your place, don't ever show that you're frightened.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Who leaves the old way for the new, the trouble not looked for, will be found there.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about problems, old, olderness

It's not polite to eat just the center of the cheese and just the crust of the bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

While there's nothing to do in April, let out the herd to pasture with all the sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about nothing

When you work with anxiety during the day, you'll sit up at night with your thoughts.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about night, work, day

Who stays at the master and doesn't learn, is either a jackass or pretends to be one.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

There are some with thirty, some with thirty-one, with twenty-eight there is but one.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian