As you pay the price with the fertilizer, the hoe and pruning determines the harvest of the olives.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
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1208 proverbs and old sayings sicilian
There are three who have to give an accounting to God; the judges, the priests, and the godparents.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about judges, god
When the fields are flooded you'll have hunger, when they're snow covered there'll be plenty to eat.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about hunger
Prepare the sickles in May, use the sickles in June, and in July carry the sickles to the tool shed.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about tools, use
When in March sun and water are taking turns with water and sun, the mules end up doing the carrying.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sun, water, end
The rich man breaks through the mesh and escapes, the afflicted man remains in the net and is caught.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man
Don't tell your friend everything that you know; remember that one day you may have him for an enemy.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about enemies, day
The young man plays the flute, the middle aged man plays the harpsichord, the old man plays the organ.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man, old, olderness
Eat little and you'll live, speak little and you'll get it right, spend little and you'll become rich.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rightness, wealth
If you show a rich man kindness, you gain nothing, but when you wrong him he avenges himself instantly.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad, wealth, nothing, man
Who has never had good sense, and by age thirty still doesn't, certainly will never have it after that.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about common sense, sense, age, olderness, good, good luck
Three things make a man rich: Earning and not spending, promising and not doing, buying and not selling.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, things, man
An evening rainbow means good weather in the morning, a rainbow in the morning fills wells and fountains.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about weather, good, good luck
God save you from narrow doorways, a caning, stones thrown at the blind and the weighing of shop keepers.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about blind, god
If you continually harvest without fertilizing the land will soon be exhausted and you'll have bad years.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, bad
When the screech-owl sings, you can try to go to work for someone else if you're working for a bad owner.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about work, bad luck, bad
Choose her for her beauty and even choose her without a dowry because from her beauty you'll get pleasure.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about beauty, pleasure
Don't leave the small quantity to get the big quantity because you might lose the one as well as the other.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The choice oil is from the surface, the best wine is from the middle, and the best honey is from the bottom.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wine
Don't confide secrets to your wife, don't rent if your house has a pergola, don't have cops as a godfathers.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wife, home, house
