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| Italian Proverb - T
'Tis a silly sheep that confesses to the wolf.'Tis good feasting in other men's houses.Take care you don't let your tail be caught in the door.Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up.Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice.Tell everybody your business and the devil will do it for you.Tell everybody your business and they will do it for you.Tell your secret to your friend and he will set his foot on your neck.Thank you, pretty pussy, was the death of my cat.That costs dear which is bought with begging.That happens in a moment which may not happen in a hundred years.That is pleasant to remember which was hard to endure.That priest is a fool who decries his relics.That which is customary requires no excuse.The anvil lasts longer than the hammer.The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.The ass's hide is used to the stick.The back door is the one that robs the home.The beard does not make the philosopher.The beast once dead, the venom is dead.The beggar's wallet has no bottom.The best always goes first.The best armor is to keep out of range.The best pears fall into the pigs' mouths.The best spices are in small bags.The best swimmer is the first to drown himself.The best trees are the most beaten.The big fish eat the little.The biter is sometimes bit.The braying of an ass does not reach heaven.The bucket goes so often to the well that it leaves its handle there.The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.The cask can give no other wine that that it contains.The chamber-bell (chamber-clapper, or curtain lecture) is the worst sound one have in his ears.The cock is bold on his own dunghill.The common soldier's blood makes the general great.The court of Rome likes not sheep without wool.The danger past, the saint cheated.The devil is bad because he is old.The devil will tempt Lucifer.The difficult thing is to get foot in the stirrup.The doctor seldom takes physic.The dog barks and the ox feeds.The dog that bites does not bark in vain.The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow.The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour.The dog that means to bite don't bark.The eagle does not war against frogs.The earth covers the errors of the physician.The election of the abbot is not stopped for want of a monk.The elephant does not feel a flea-bite.The end of the corsair is to drown.The end praises the work.The eye is blind if the mind is absent.The eye of the master fattens the horse.The fear of war is worse than war itself.The first at the mill grinds first.The first dish pleases every one.The first wife is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy.The gardener's dog does not eat lettuce and will not let others eat it.The golden key opens every door.The good seaman is known in bad weather.The good shepherd shears, not flays.The good time comes but once.The gown does not make the friar.The hardest step is that over the threshold.The injurer never forgets.The Italianised Englishman is a devil incarnate.The Italians are wise before the act, the Germans in the act, the French after the act.The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.The kick of a mare never hurt a colt.The last comer shuts the door.The later comer is ill lodged.The mill does not grind without water.The moon does not heed the baying of dogs.The more the fox is cursed, the more prey he catches.The more you stroke the cat's back the more set sets up her tail.The most prudent yields to the strongest.The moth does most mischief to the finest garment.The mountains are in labour, and bring forth a mouse.The myrtle is always a myrtle, though it be among nettles.The pan says to the pot: Keep off, or you'll smutch me.The pitcher that goes often to the fountain leaves there either its handle or its spout.The point of the thorn is small, but hw who has felt it does not forget it.The pope and a peasant know more than the pope together.The priest errs at the altar.The remedy for injuries is not to remember them.The Trojans were wise too late.The unfortunate know who are their real friends.The venom is in the tail.The virtue of parents is in itself a great legacy.The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.The water breaks out where it is not expected.There are good and bad everywhere.There are many roads to Rome.There are more asses than carry sacks.There are more thieves than gibbets.There are more threatened than slain.There are more ways to the wood than one.There are some who despise pride with a greater pride.There are some who see ill, and would like to see worse.There are tricks in all trades.There is no getting blood from a turnip.There is no worse fruit than that which never ripens.There is no worse robber than a bad book.There is no worse thief than a bad book.There never was a shoe however handsome that did not become an ugly slipper.There's no disputing about tastes.There's no getting to heaven in a coach.There's no making the ass drink when his is not thirsty.There's no smoke with fire.There's no thief like a bad book.Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.Though a lie be swift, truth overtakes it.Though the fox runs, the pullets have wings.To be content to let twelve pennies pass for a shilling.To catch a hare with a cart.To catch two pigeons with one bean.To flay the flayed dog.To lock the stable after the horses are taken.To make two nails at one heat.To promise more carts than oxen.To pull down the house for the sake of the mortar.To put on one's doublet before one's shirt.To put out the fire with tow.To sell the bird in the bush.To sell the honey to one who has the bees.To sell the skin of the bear before it is caught.To spur a horse on level ground.To strip one altar to cover another.To strip Peter to clothe Paul.To the fallen tree, hatchets! hatchets!To throw the halter after the ass.To throw the rope after the bucket.To whom you tell your secret you surrender your freedom.Translators, traitors.True love never grows old.Trust was a good man; Trust-not was a better. |
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