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Married people and mules, leave them alone.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people

Even a hundred people can't undress a nude.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people

If you don't like dogs, you don't like people.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people, contentment

People with money and friends don't esteem justice.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about justice, money, people

It's a bad sign when the sick person tosses and turns in bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people, bad luck, bad

Whoever falls in love with an old person laments their fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, people, love, old, olderness

You can tell an educated person by their talk and bells by their ringing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people, contentment

The quince is for fiancees who are fighting and the azarole for good people.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people, good, good luck

God save us from four people: doctors, notaries, pharmacists, and bad bosses.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, people, bad luck, god, bad

Saints sleep three hours, merchants sleep five, ordinary people seven and the lazy sleep nine.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sleep, saints, people

A sick person can eat a fig that's ringed with a crown; the burgisotta fig is a treat for the girl.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people

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, contentment

Invite people into your parlor, and they will come into your bedroom.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

The person who can see a house in China is unaware of an elephant on his nose.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, home, house

Never take a quiet person for granted. He might have great qualities underneath his quiet nature.

Proverbs and old sayings about quiet, nature, people

During the daylight, a person will not fall into a pit that he fell into during the nighttime.

Proverbs and old sayings about fall, people

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 thinking, youth, age, olderness, people, 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 use, people, god, contentment

A sinking persons grabs a straw.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

One should rise to a person who sees you sitting.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, contentment