If you want to have a happy life, stay far away from your relatives.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
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259 proverbs and old sayings sicilian about contentment
You'll realize he was a friend when you lose him and see him no more.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
You're wasting your time trying to interest the old in new endeavors.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
If you go fishing and catch nothing, go to the henhouse and get eggs.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
Overwhelming courtesy raises concern that you may be being deceitful.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
If you give your goods without a pledge, you show little inventiveness.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
In war, hunting, and love you suffer a thousand pains for one pleasure.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
If someone can take whatever you have, give them whatever they ask for.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
You need to have patience in storms: you don't eat honey without flies.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
The ancient motto says: When you can eat the figs, prune the fig trees.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
Sow fava bean and flax with confidence while you still have a full silo.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
It's useless to change your state, if you don't have luck in your favor.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
In the countryside eat cardoon, because at the castle you'll eat pigeon.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
If you want to stay full of good health, always eat eggs and drink wine.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
When the Sirocco blows in the winter, you can expect rain at any moment.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
You can tell an educated person by their talk and bells by their ringing.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
Don't pass judgement on a work of art if you don't know how to create it.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
The good that you scoff at and ignore, you'll recognize when you lose it.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
The laying hen says: give me feed to fill my beak and I'll give you eggs.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
You may crush, bleed, stamp on and scratch me, but I won't play with fire.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
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