Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian, page 60

1208 proverbs and old sayings sicilian

When the moon is pale, it will rain; when it's red, it will be windy and when it's clear, it will be serene.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about moon, rain

If the young had the motivation and the old had the strength, there'd be nothing that couldn't be accomplished.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about motivation, nothing, old, olderness

It's a great advantage to love someone in your neighborhood: you see each other often and you don't have to travel.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love

The cowherd who has fodder has bread, and if he doesn't have fodder then he ends up without oxen and without bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about end

Nunziata, fix the salad, a little vinegar, lots of oil, four reckless mouthfuls, and then some drinks from the jug.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The ideal is a four year old dog, an eight year old horse, an eighteen year old woman and a twenty eight year old man.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about ideal, old, olderness, woman, man

The man who marries gives up liberty and accepts responsibility and it's said: The poor guy, who would have thought it.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about liberty, thinking, man

If you want to be happy, love the one who loves you, because it's a waste of time to love someone who doesn't love you.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love, waste, happiness, time

Don't go to the doctor for every malady, nor to the lawyer for every disagreement, nor to the fountain for every thirst.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about malady

When the ripened ears are full and fall over, as if in sleep, the farmer awakens, that is to say, he begins the harvest.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sleep, fall

If she's a nun in the abbey, she treats Jesus as an owner, but if she's a nun in the home, she serves Jesus and kisses him.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about kiss, home

When it rains in the morning, take the plow and start sowing; when it rains between Vespers and nightfall, put on your boots.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The oil merchant handles gold and diamonds; the grain merchant does business with silver, but the wine merchant is a poor man.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about affair, wine, man

If you don't know by age twenty, don't do by age thrity, don't have by age forty, you will never know, never do, and never have.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about age, olderness

From the woods a beautiful pheasant, from the sea a beautiful moray eel, from the river a den eel, from the cage a beautiful chicken.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When the olive tree blooms during April, olives are harvested with barrels, when it blossoms in June, they are harvested in handfuls.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When you're invited, eat heartily, because if they like you they'll laugh, and if they don't like you they'll feel the pangs of death.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about death

If you want bread go to Agrigento, if you want pasta go to Licata, ask for money from the people in Aci, oil and sumac from the Terminesi.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about money, people

There are four things to which you should not lend credence: love of women, the charity of friars, sun in the winter, and clouds in the summer.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about charity, sun, things, love

Who gets married to a thin woman will know bitterness and strife, who marries a plump woman will be contented at the table and sleeping chamber.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman