Don't pay a single gold coin for the sorrell, but when he's good, be ready to spend a fortune.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, good, good luck
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1208 proverbs and old sayings sicilian
Saints sleep three hours, merchants sleep five, ordinary people seven and the lazy sleep nine.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sleep, saints, people
The man with a beautiful wife is always singing, the one with little money is always counting.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wife, money, man
Do you want to experience real thirst? Then try eating bitter cardoons and roasted fava beans.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about real estate, experience, bitter
If you wish someone evil, give him a horse, and if you wish him more evil, give him two horses.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wish
God protect you from the man who looks down at the ground and the woman who looks up to heaven.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman, god, man
First harvest honey and wax during the day, then dance and play in the open during the evening.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about dance, day
When you see a sheep's wool sky you know, if it doesn't rain today, it will rain in the morning.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rain, sky
Inexperienced young men are better off not marrying: Stay away from women! you'll be better off.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man
A man is never so ridiculous by those qualities that are his own as by those he affects to have.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man
The old never lack for a story when they're standing in the sun or in front of a warm fireplace.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sun, old, olderness
If you urge the donkey on, you'll arrive late, if you let the donkey amble, you'll arrive early.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Open your eyes and your ears when contracting, because the agreed upon circumstances mean a lot.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about circumstances, eyes
Monreale, a city without comfort, either it rains, or the wind blows, or bells ring for the dead.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about city
A hitch makes a calf, a sty makes a pig, the open field makes lamb, the hay barn makes a kid goat.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Who has many comforts and does not use them, won't find a confessor who will grant him absolution.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about absolution, use
When you go to steal a sheep and you're succeeding, take a big one because the small one will grow.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
From twenty to thirty, neither pulling nor pushing, from thirty on up a woman is of no further use.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about use, woman
A sick person can eat a fig that's ringed with a crown; the burgisotta fig is a treat for the girl.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people
You drive a donkey with a stick, an ox and a mule with a prod, and the horse with a whip and spurs.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
