Uncollected olives, left at random fill neither the saddle bag nor the little sack.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
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Priests dressed in black bring bad tidings, in white they take you to the cemetery.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about magic, bad luck, bad, contentment
Don't maintain a friendship with cops because you'll lose your wine and your cigars.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about friendship, wine, contentment
Collect promptly, pay slowly; who knows, in case of an accident, you'll pay nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about nothing, contentment
If you invest a lot but don't maintain it, you won't even harvest enough to re-seed.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
It is written in sacred scripture: where grass is growing you don't need fertilizer.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about need, contentment
Love entered and you didn't realize it: you wanted to drive it out but you couldn't.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love, contentment
May waters drench peasants and lords or gentlemen, as many of them as it encounters.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
If you don't want anyone to take your place, don't ever show that you're frightened.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
Who leaves the old way for the new, the trouble not looked for, will be found there.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about problems, old, olderness
It's not polite to eat just the center of the cheese and just the crust of the bread.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
While there's nothing to do in April, let out the herd to pasture with all the sheep.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about nothing
When you work with anxiety during the day, you'll sit up at night with your thoughts.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about night, work, day, contentment
Who stays at the master and doesn't learn, is either a jackass or pretends to be one.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
There are some with thirty, some with thirty-one, with twenty-eight there is but one.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Who gets married will be happy for a day, who butchers a pig will be happy for a year.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about happiness, day
Who pounds the water in the mortar, will get wet with the drops and will end up tired.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about end, water
A sheep's wool sky means wind's to follow, either a Levant or a West wind or a Sirocco.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sky
The first seeding on the feast of All Saints and the last on the feast of Saint Andrew.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about feast, saints
The cockroach inside the oakum, the more it tries to free itself, the more it's caught.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
