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| Italian Proverb - I
I being satisfied, the world is satisfied.I saw you at Lucca, I knew you at Pisa.I speak to you, daughter; hear it daughter-in-law.I too can lead the geese to water when it rains.I will do what I can, and a little less, to be able to continue at it.If a woman were little as she is good
A peascod would make her a gown and a hood.If I have lost the ring I still have the fingers.If I sleep, I sleep for myself; if I work, I know not for whom.If I went to sea I should find it dry.If it rained maccaroni, what a fine time for gluttons!If pride were an art, how many doctors we should have.If someone betrays you once, it's his fault. If he betrays you twice, it's your fault.If the hen had not cackled, we should not know she had laid an egg.If the sun shines on me I care not for the moon.If you are a mouse don't follow frogs.If you let them put the calf on your shoulders, it will not be long before they clap on the cow.If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.If you would have your work ill done, pay beforehand.If you would succeed, you must not be too good.If young men had wit and old men strength everything might be well done.Ill in kine and worse in beeves.Ill luck comes by pounds and goes away by ounces.Ill news comes apace.Ill news travels fast.Illness tells us what we are.In a golden sheath a leaden knife.In men every mortal sin is venial, in women every venial sin is mortal.In prosperity no altars smoke.In the country of the blind blessed is he that hath one eye.In the fray the weak are strong.In the war of love who flies conquers.In war time there is pay for every horse.Injurious is the gift that takes away freedom.It is a bad game where nobody wins.It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to be known for one.It is a good answer which knows when to stop.It is a good file that cuts iron without making a noise.It is a sorry house where the hens crow and the cock is silent.It is all one whether you die of sickness or of love.It is always good to have two strings to your bow.It is better to have a husband without love than jealous.It is better to hear the nightingale sing than the mouse gnaw.It is better to irritate a dog than an old woman.It is better to leave than to lack.It is easy robbing when the dog is quieted.It is easy to give advice when all goes well.It is easy to preach fasting with a fully belly.It is easy to threaten a bull from a window.It is good living under the shadow of the belfry.It is good to buy when another wants to sell.It is good to have friends everywhere.It is good to hold the clothes of one who is swimming.It is in vain to lay a net in sight of the birds.It is no time to play chess when the house is on fire.It is not easy to show the way to a blind man.It is not easy to steal in thieves' houses.It is not enough to know how to steal, one must know also how to conceal.It is not every flower that smells sweet.It is not honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove.It is not necessary to fish up every bucket that falls into the well.It is not the long day, but the heart that does the work.It is the blood of the soldier that makes the general great.It is the petty expenses that empty the purse.It is too late to come with water when the house is burnt down.It is truth that makes a many angry.It is vain to fish if the hook is not baited.It never thunders but it rains.It takes four living men to carry one dead man out of a house.It's a bad mouthful that chokes.It's a very proud horse that will not carry his oats.It's foolish sheep that makes the wolf its confessor. |
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