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The best advice one can give to the hungry is bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about advice

Who serves well and says nothing makes claim enough.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about nothing

Eating and drinking Shouldn't keep us from thinking.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thinking, drinking

Drink water like an ox, wine like the king of Spain.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking, wine, water

A hundred-year-old revenge still has its baby teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about revenge, old, olderness

The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about virtue, knowledge, silence

Who depends on another man's table often dines late.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

Who takes a lion at a distance fears a mole present.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about present

A beautiful woman smiling, bespeaks a purse weeping.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about woman

Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about chance

He who has scalded himself once blows the next time.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about time

He who would enjoy the feast should fast on the eve.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about feast, fasting

By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about impossible

He who would relish his food must not see it cooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about food

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Time and patience change the mulberry leaf to satin.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about salary, change, patience, time

He who has a good horse in his stable may go on foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about good, good luck

Who goes not, sees not; who proves not, believes not.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Where the devil cannot put his head he puts his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about devil, heads

If you would have your work ill done, pay beforehand.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about work, contentment