When you uproot vines as you plant vines, you'll never harvest the grapes.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
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When you want to serve your friend, you can't worry about your belongings.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about worry, contentment
The meat from the castrated, from wherever you take it you trick yourself.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
Mountains will never join other mountains but men will confront other men.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man
Tie the donkey where the owner wants, and let the wolf come to devour him.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
If you want to know if someone has money, observe his beard and his boots.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about money, contentment
Better the bad one from a good breed than the better one from a bad breed.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, bad, good, good luck
Ring the bells for whoever eats snails and drinks water, because he's dead.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about water
Better to be wrongfully excommunicated than to make a death bed confession.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about confession, death
Whoever sows within the vineyard, neither reaps a crop nor harvests grapes.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Better to die in the clutches of the lion than under the tail of a jackass.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about death
The young cock said to the young chicken: the whole world is like our home.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about home, world
Oh, oh, oh! three times I say it, who falls into poverty loses his friends.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about poverty
When you try to walk the straight and narrow you get pebbles in your shoes.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
Walls don't have ears but they hear, they don't have mouths but they speak.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Syracuse is a lovely place, with five bucks you can eat, drink, and get by.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about drinking, contentment
The lie of the millionaire is more believable than truth from a the beggar.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about lie, truth
Empty stalks from the Sirocco and full spikes of wheat with the North Wind.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Who drives donkeys and believes women, will never see the face of paradise.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about paradise, face
If you engage in a business you don't understand, your money will fly away.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about affair, money, contentment
