Dress up a country bumpkin and he looks like a baron.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about country
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For a cow and a calf you need a man and a stable boy.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about need, man, contentment
It's better to cajole the beast than to scream at it.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
A wife and a nag, choose them from your neighborhood.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wife
It's better to have few pleasures than many troubles.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about problems
Cheese, pears and bread, is not the food of peasants.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about food
Her beauty is the only dowery a beautiful girl needs.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about beauty
God has dominion over your possessions and your life.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about life, god
It takes both luck and good fortune just to fry eggs.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about good luck, bad luck, wealth, good
Alacci, remove the bones and be left with the bother.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Don't kneel in front of a saint who doesn't perspire.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about saints
Around and around, the moth dies in the candle flame.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Daughter of a cat, if she doesn't bite she scratches.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Use the chicken for broth and the pullet for its meat.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about use
Who makes baskets, makes some ugly and some beautiful.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
It's pointless to fish if there's no bait on the hook.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about pointless, fishing
Monks have both a capacious sleeve and a tight sleeve.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
At the dining table you should eat without constraint.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
A horse without spurs is like a ship without a rudder.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
There's no plan that can handle the vagaries of March.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
