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 contentment
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5134 proverbs and old sayings about contentment
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 contentment
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 about contentment
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 contentment
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 contentment
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 contentment
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 contentment
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 contentment
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 contentment
You need four men to make a good salad: a crazy man to mix it, a scholar for the salt, a miser for a touch of vinegar, and a squanderer for the oil.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
If you've seeded before a heavy rain, one out of one hundred of your plants will be out of line, but if you wait and seed later, one out of one hundred will take.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
If you want a beautiful woman, hurry to Syracuse: if you want her ugly, run to Terranova, go to Rosolini if you want her lazy and to Spaccaforno if you're looking for one to try.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
If the olive trees blossom in April, you'll have enough to collect them with barrels; if they bud in May, you'll have enough to fill a small measure; but if as late as June, you'll only be collecting handfuls.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
When a single hair has fallen from your head, you are not yet bald.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If you can't do the deed, don't block another from trying.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Don’t believe everything you hear, and don’t tell everything you believe.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If you don't know where you are going, any path will take you there.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Before you choose a counselor, watch him with his neighbor's children.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Guard your tongue in youth, and in age you may mature a thought that will be of service to your people.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
First you are to think always of god. second you are to use all your powers to care for your people and especially the poor.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
