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There are some who despise pride with a greater pride.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about proudness

It is good to hold the clothes of one who is swimming.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about clothes, good, good luck

Tie me hand and foot and throw me among my own people.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about people

If it rained maccaroni, what a fine time for gluttons!

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about time

Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to reign.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about word, contentment

A pitcher that goes oft to the well is broken at last.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Do not give the dog bread every time he wags his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about time

Women always speak the truth, but not the whole truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about truth

Priests, friars, nuns, and chickens never have enough.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

There is no making pancakes without breaking the eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He that is good for something is the ass of the public.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about public, good, good luck

Men are as old as they feel, women as old as they look.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man, old, olderness

From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A lawsuit is a fruit-tree planted in a lawyer's garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about garden

Many pupils have gained more wealth than their masters.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wealth

The pan says to the pot: Keep off, or you'll smutch me.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about contentment

Lawyers' robes are lined with the obstinacy of suitors.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Who offends writes on sand; who is offended, on marble.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian