Better a woman who is dark-skinned and gracious, than one who is light-skinned and insipid.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about dark, light, woman
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If you want to experience the pains of hell, spend winter in Messina and summer in Palermo.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about experience, hell, contentment
If you marry you'll suffer in your youth, if you don't marry you'll suffer in your old age.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about suffering, olderness, youth, age, contentment, old
Capacious as the sleeve of a monk and patient as the priest with his arms across his chest.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The promises of love and the smoke of a chimney, washed by water and blown away by the wind.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about smoke, water, love
To get the best dowry, marry the poor man's first daughter but the rich man's last daughter.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man
Who seizes too much with his own hand, will have everything slip away and will hold nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about nothing
If you have to have animals in your house, don't have either a dog or a cat with a red coat.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about animals, home, house, contentment
Before it's ready to eat the fig must be mature, dripping, with a bent neck and a thin skin.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The soul goes to God, the body to the earth, and belongings to those to whom they should go.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about body, soul, earth, god
For the very best, drink milk from the goat, ricotta from the sheep and cheese from the cow.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about drinking
Don't be foolish and awe struck, because foolishness is telling but cursing doesn't hit home.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about home
With everything Messina has the port, but for beautiful Palermo it is always just an orchard.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about garden
On Saint Candelora day, if it's snowing or raining, there'll be another forty days of winter.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about day, saints
If the winter doesn't winter, and the summer doesn't summer, the farmstead will be in trouble.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about problems
Don't pay a single gold coin for the sorrell, but when he's good, be ready to spend a fortune.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, good, good luck
Saints sleep three hours, merchants sleep five, ordinary people seven and the lazy sleep nine.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sleep, saints, people
The man with a beautiful wife is always singing, the one with little money is always counting.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wife, money, man
Do you want to experience real thirst? Then try eating bitter cardoons and roasted fava beans.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about real estate, experience, bitter, contentment
If you wish someone evil, give him a horse, and if you wish him more evil, give him two horses.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wish, contentment
