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If an offense has hurt you too much, leave it, my friend, for a future time.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about future, time, contentment

The healthy can't pretend to be sick nor can the sick pretend to be healthy.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The quince is for fiancees who are fighting and the azarole for good people.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about people, good, good luck

If you still have money in the month of May, you'll have it the entire year.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about money, contentment

If you want to be loved by all, first love God, then your mother and father.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about mother, love, god, contentment

The testimony of one eyewitness is worth more than the hearsay of a hundred.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

For tender almonds go to Aragona, to see beautiful young girls go to Favara.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Who doesn't want to stay with friends, is either a cop, a cuckold, or a spy.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about police

A good kid goat comes from a young goat and a good lamb from a strong sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about good, good luck

Dig the hoe in well in the vineyard and pull out the bad growth and the weed.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, bad

A full ear requires three good things: good time, good seeds and good hoeing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about good, good luck, things, time

A woman who dresses up and puts on makeup is either in love or a clean whore.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman, love

Who makes the hundred and not the one, loses the hundred because of that one.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

God save me from false friends, so that I can protect myself from my enemies.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about enemies, god

God save us from four people: doctors, notaries, pharmacists, and bad bosses.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, people, bad luck, god, bad

An honest wife is a treasure that lasts, a sad wife is worse than the plague.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wife, treasure

As Maguni the Carthaginian used to say: work to the vineyard, mind the store.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about stores, mind, work

A contented stomach, a forgiving heart; but an empty stomach pardons nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heart, nothing

The real cost for both a neat house and a well kept vineyard is incalculable.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about real estate, home, house

Everyone wants to go to heaven; the desire is there but the fortitude is not.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian