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Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
Proverbs and old sayings about Contentment, page 220
5134 proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Prepare the fallow field well enough and you'll be free to go off and gather the hemp ties.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
If you want to experience the pains of hell, spend winter in Messina and summer in Palermo.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
If you marry you'll suffer in your youth, if you don't marry you'll suffer in your old age.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
If you have to have animals in your house, don't have either a dog or a cat with a red coat.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
Do you want to experience real thirst? Then try eating bitter cardoons and roasted fava beans.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
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 contentment
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 contentment
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 contentment
Inexperienced young men are better off not marrying: Stay away from women! you'll be better off.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
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 about contentment
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 about contentment
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 about contentment
As you pay the price with the fertilizer, the hoe and pruning determines the harvest of the olives.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
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 contentment
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 contentment
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 contentment
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 contentment
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 contentment
If you continually harvest without fertilizing the land will soon be exhausted and you'll have bad years.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
