While you still have bread, troubles are not troubles, true troubles are without bread.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about problems, contentment
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Love, everyone says it's bitter, but everyone wants to see for themselves if it's true.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bitter, love
There isn't a Holy Week without the fifty days, nor the fifty days without the Sirocco.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about day
Break the soil when it's moist, plow with the warm weather, and do the seeding on time.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about weather, time
One who believes everything he's told is as naive as one who fetches water with a sieve.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about water
If the rich man is fawning over the poor man, you can be certain that he needs something.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man, contentment
Whoever seeds fava beans without using fertilizer, shouldn't count on having much to eat.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Roof tiles are positioned to face downwards so that husbands and wives can be left alone.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about face
Cavaliers, priests, and dangerous places, speak nicely about them but keep your distance.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Whoever goes to Palermo and doesn't see Monreale, goes there a jackass and returns a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
When you have brains to go along with your wealth you can call yourself happy and content.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, happiness, contentment
The bed of the Dominicans, the table of the Capuccins, and the luxury of the Benedictines.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
In fair weather, in calm waters and in peaceful travel, even a coachman knows how to sail.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about weather
Spend Easter and Christmas with whomever you want, but celebrate Mardi Gras with your own.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about christmas, contentment
We keep an eye on the scorpion and the serpent, but we do not watch out for the millipede.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The olive grove of your grandfather, the cherry trees of your father, and your grape vines.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
In Polizzi you'll find water, fog, kites, priests with children, commissions and delegates.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about children, water, contentment
The man with a fixed income lives with anxiety and suffers as the costs of goods fluctuate.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man
Prepare the fallow field well enough and you'll be free to go off and gather the hemp ties.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment
During April rainfalls the pig gets butchered, the oxen gets fattened and the sheep laughs.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
