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The vine always says to his uncle Frank: Make me poor and I'll make you rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, contentment

Confessions without contrition, and prayers without intentions are time lost.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about time

If you don't collect the sheep early, you get neither the sheep nor the wool.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

If you want to eat freshly caught fish, you don't want to have a tight purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about fishing, contentment

The weak who opposes the strong, is like the jug that collides with the wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

If it's a cock it will crow and crow, if it's a chicken it will peck its hip.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Who fails to listen to his elders, will hang his knapsack in the wrong place.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad

If you prune in April you'll fill your barrels not with wine, but with water.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wine, water, contentment

Wealth and holiness, believe only half, if you believe less, you'll do better.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about faith, wealth, contentment

Who rids himself of his own freedom, always finds himself with worry and pain.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about worry, pain

If you're not a King don't make new laws; leave the world the way you find it.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about world, contentment

Kiss him, kiss him, little mouth of honey: you're the hooker but I'm the wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about kiss, wife, contentment

In May the horse gets fat, but if he doesn't get fat it's better to ditch him.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Who takes cover under the branch, collects what rains and collects what falls.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

April is the time for sweet sleep, don't take things off, don't put things on.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about things, sleep, time

When the ox is at the slaughterhouse everyone comes running with their knives.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When the partridge sings in the stone quarry bring the wood into the haystack.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Choose bread with eyes, cheese without eyes and wine that makes your eyes pop.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about eyes, wine

The world is a wheel, there are some at the top and some who go to the bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about world

There are two powers to contend with, those with a lot and those with nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about nothing