Who gets married will be happy for a day, who butchers a pig will be happy for a year.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about happiness, day
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1208 proverbs and old sayings sicilian
Who pounds the water in the mortar, will get wet with the drops and will end up tired.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about end, water
A sheep's wool sky means wind's to follow, either a Levant or a West wind or a Sirocco.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sky
The first seeding on the feast of All Saints and the last on the feast of Saint Andrew.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about feast, saints
The cockroach inside the oakum, the more it tries to free itself, the more it's caught.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
While you still have bread, troubles are not troubles, true troubles are without bread.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about problems
Love, everyone says it's bitter, but everyone wants to see for themselves if it's true.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bitter, love
There isn't a Holy Week without the fifty days, nor the fifty days without the Sirocco.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about day
Break the soil when it's moist, plow with the warm weather, and do the seeding on time.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about weather, time
One who believes everything he's told is as naive as one who fetches water with a sieve.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about water
If the rich man is fawning over the poor man, you can be certain that he needs something.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man
Whoever seeds fava beans without using fertilizer, shouldn't count on having much to eat.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Roof tiles are positioned to face downwards so that husbands and wives can be left alone.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about face
Cavaliers, priests, and dangerous places, speak nicely about them but keep your distance.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Whoever goes to Palermo and doesn't see Monreale, goes there a jackass and returns a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
When you have brains to go along with your wealth you can call yourself happy and content.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, happiness
The bed of the Dominicans, the table of the Capuccins, and the luxury of the Benedictines.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
In fair weather, in calm waters and in peaceful travel, even a coachman knows how to sail.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about weather
Spend Easter and Christmas with whomever you want, but celebrate Mardi Gras with your own.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about christmas
We keep an eye on the scorpion and the serpent, but we do not watch out for the millipede.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
