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There is always the calm sea before the storm.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Don't prod the donkey while you're getting on.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

Buy good quality and sell at the market price.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about commerce, quality, stores, good, good luck

You can't live a long life and remain upright.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about life, contentment

Don't put yourself on a par with your betters.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When there's love, mountains seem like plains.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love

Who sins and then makes amends, trusts in God.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sin, god

Your most faithful friends are your own hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Don't spare expense on the wheat and the flax.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Congeniality makes beauty and not beauty love.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about beauty, love

Justice that's pending is injustice attending.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about injustice, justice

Better an egg today than the chicken tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

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

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people, contentment

Who doesn't intend to pay, signs any contract.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about astrology

If the mare jumps, the filly will jump higher.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

If you don't want it to be known, don't do it.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

A woman in her thirties, throw her in the sea.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman

See Palermo and enjoy it, see Naples then die.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about death

Too much rain makes the green grain fall over.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rain, fall

Take her by herself and take her with nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about nothing