The ideal is a four year old dog, an eight year old horse, an eighteen year old woman and a twenty eight year old man.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about ideal, old, olderness, woman, man
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The man who marries gives up liberty and accepts responsibility and it's said: The poor guy, who would have thought it.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about liberty, thinking, man
If you want to be happy, love the one who loves you, because it's a waste of time to love someone who doesn't love you.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love, waste, happiness, time, contentment
Don't go to the doctor for every malady, nor to the lawyer for every disagreement, nor to the fountain for every thirst.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about malady
When the ripened ears are full and fall over, as if in sleep, the farmer awakens, that is to say, he begins the harvest.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sleep, fall
If she's a nun in the abbey, she treats Jesus as an owner, but if she's a nun in the home, she serves Jesus and kisses him.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about kiss, home
When it rains in the morning, take the plow and start sowing; when it rains between Vespers and nightfall, put on your boots.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The oil merchant handles gold and diamonds; the grain merchant does business with silver, but the wine merchant is a poor man.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about affair, wine, man
If you don't know by age twenty, don't do by age thrity, don't have by age forty, you will never know, never do, and never have.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about age, olderness, contentment
From the woods a beautiful pheasant, from the sea a beautiful moray eel, from the river a den eel, from the cage a beautiful chicken.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
When the olive tree blooms during April, olives are harvested with barrels, when it blossoms in June, they are harvested in handfuls.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
When you're invited, eat heartily, because if they like you they'll laugh, and if they don't like you they'll feel the pangs of death.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about death, contentment
If you want bread go to Agrigento, if you want pasta go to Licata, ask for money from the people in Aci, oil and sumac from the Terminesi.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about money, people, contentment
There are four things to which you should not lend credence: love of women, the charity of friars, sun in the winter, and clouds in the summer.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about charity, sun, things, love, contentment
Who gets married to a thin woman will know bitterness and strife, who marries a plump woman will be contented at the table and sleeping chamber.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman
In the head of the pig there's something to take and something to leave; in the head of the rabbit there's nothing to leave and nothing to take.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, nothing
At C?ccamu there are the boors at Termini the brunette slaves; and at Palermo long-stemmed roses, beautiful on the outside and rotten on the inside.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
You need four men to make a good salad: a crazy man to mix it, a scholar for the salt, a miser for a touch of vinegar, and a squanderer for the oil.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man, need, good, good luck, contentment
Nobel and rich are the Messinans, heads of the kingdom are the Palermitani, the Catanians have a contented heart, and in Cefalu they are rich with fish.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, wealth, fishing, heart
If you've seeded before a heavy rain, one out of one hundred of your plants will be out of line, but if you wait and seed later, one out of one hundred will take.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rain, contentment
