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| Italian Proverb - A
A bad agreement is better than a good lawsuit.A barking cur does not bite.A beautiful woman smiling, bespeaks a purse weeping.A bird in the cage is worth a hundred at large.A blind man is not judge of colours.A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.A braying ass eats little hay.A calm portends a storm.A cat pent up becomes a lion.A cat that licks the spit is not to be trusted with roast meat.A clear bargain, a dear friend.A cloak is not made for a single shower of rain.A closed mouth catches no flies.A cracked pot never fell off the hook.A cur's tail grows fast.A dead man does not make war.A dog is never offended at being pelted with bones.A dog never bit me but I had some of his hair.A drop of water breaks a stone.A drowning man would catch at razors.A farthing saved is twice earned.A fat kitchen is next door to poverty.A fat kitchen, a lean testament.A fine shot never killed a bird.A fool can ask more questions than seven wise men can answer.A fool throws a stone into a well, and it requires a hundred wise men to get it out again.A fools knows his own business better than a wise man knows that of others.A friend is not known till he is lost.A friend, and look to thyself.A full sack pricks up its ear.A gift delayed, and long expected, is not given, but sold dear.A gift long expected is sold, not given.A gold key opens every door.A good anvil does not fear the hammer.A good appetite does not want sauce.A good cavalier never lacks a lance.A good horse and a bad horse need the spur; a good woman and a bad woman need the stick.A good horse never lacks a saddle.A good paymaster does not hesitate to give good security.A good thing lost is valued.A greased mouth cannot say no.A great church and little devotion.A great liar has need of good memory.A hair of the dog cures the bite.A happy heart is better than a full purse.A heavy shower is soon over.A horse falls though he has four legs.A horse grown fat kicks.A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honour.A hungry ass eats any straw.A hungry dog does not fear the stick.A jade eats as much as a good horse.A kitchen dog never was good for the chase.A lawyer never goes to law himself.A lean horse does not kick.A little gall make a great deal of honey bitter.A little man often casts a long shadow.A little stone overturns a great cart.A little truth makes the whole lie pass.A living ass is better than a dead doctor.A lover's anger is short-lived.A loving man, a jealous man.A mad parish, a mad priest.A man of straw needs a woman of gold.A man should learn to sail in all winds.A man should learn to sail in all winds.A man's own opinion is never wrong.A market is three women and a goose.A married man is a caged bird.A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.A mild sheep is suck by every lamb.A mill and a wife are always in want of something.A mischievous dog must be tied short.A misfortune and a friar seldom go alone.A mouse will scare a thief.A muffled cat is no good mouser.A near neighbour is better than a distant cousin.A new broom is good for three days.A new net won't catch an old bird.A pitcher that goes oft to the well is broken at last.A proud pauper and a rich miser are contemptible beings.A ragged coat finds little credit.A ragged sack holds no grain, a poor man is not taken into counsel.A rotting fish begins to stink at the head.A runaway horse punishes himself.A runaway monk never praises his convent.A saddle fits more backs than one.A scalded dog thinks cold water hot.A scorpion never stung me but I cured myself with its grease.A secret imparted is no longer a secret.A sheep's bite is never more than skip deep.A short tail won't keep off flies.A sin concealed is half forgiven.A sin confessed is half forgiven.A slothful man never has time.A solitary man is either a brute or an angel.A starved town is soon forced to surrender.A stick is soon found to beat a dog.A stout heart overcomes ill fortune.A thing done has a head. (The exultation of an ancient sculptor on his satisfactorily completing the head of his statue.)A thing is never much talked of but there is some truth in it.A thousand probabilities do not make one truth.A threatened buffet is never well given.A tree often transplanted is never loaded with fruit.A vagabond monk never spoke well of his convent.A voluntary burthen is no burthen.A wise man and a fool together, know more than a wise man alone.A wise man does at first what a fool must do at last.A woman who loves to be at the window is like a bunch of grapes on the wayside.A woman's in pain, a woman's in woe, a woman is ill, when she likes to be so.A wound foreseen paint the less.Absence is a foe to love; out of sight out of mind.After one pope another is made.After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.Agree between yourselves (as to the time), quoth Arlotto, and I
will make it rain.All are brave when the enemy flies.All are not saints who go to church.All is not butter that comes from the cow.All saints do not work miracles.All ships leak: some amidships, some in the bows, some in the hold.All tastes are tastes.All that's fair must fade.All the brains are not in one head.All the fingers are not alike.All the honey a bee gathers during its lifetime doesn't sweeten its sting.All the sheep are not for the wolf.All water runs to the sea.Among men of honour a word is a bond.Among thorns grow roses.An ambassador beareth no blame.An ass's tail will not make a sieve.An ass's trot does not last long.An Englishman Italianate is a devil incarnate.
[It., Inglese italianato e un diavolo incarnato.]An idle man is the devil's bolster.An old dog does not grow used to the collar.An old flag is an honour to its captain.An old horse for a young soldier.An old quarrel is easily renewed.An ounce of discretion is better than a pound of knowledge.An unasked for excuse infers transgression.Anger can be an expensive luxury.Anger increases love.Any excuse is good if it hold good.Any plan is bad that cannot be changed.Any water will put out fire.Appetite comes in eating.Argus at home, a mole abroad.Arms carry peace.As both a good horse and a bad horse heed the spur, so both a good woman and a bad woman need the stick.As is the lover so is the beloved.As poor as a church mouse.As you would have a daughter so choose a wife.Ask my chum if I am a thief.Ask which was born first, the hen or the egg.Asking costs little.At a dangerous passage yield precedence.At a good bargain pause and ponder.At a great river be the last to pass.At a round table there is no dispute about place.At an open chest the righteous sins.At last the foxes all meet at the furrier's.At table bashfulness is out of place.At the end of the game we see who wins.Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him. |
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