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One is never too old to yearn.
ITALIAN PROVERB The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.
ITALIAN PROVERB From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
ITALIAN PROVERB Years and sins are always more than owned.
ITALIAN PROVERB Better a near neighbour than a distant cousin.
ITALIAN PROVERB The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.
ITALIAN PROVERB He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.
ITALIAN PROVERB After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved.
ITALIAN PROVERB Bed is the poor man's opera.
ITALIAN PROVERB The rich never have to seek out their relatives.
ITALIAN PROVERB Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
ITALIAN PROVERB There is no robber worse than a bad book.
ITALIAN PROVERB The best way to get praise is to die.
ITALIAN PROVERB Voice of one, voice of none.
ITALIAN PROVERB The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one.
ITALIAN PROVERB A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
ITALIAN PROVERB If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would...
ITALIAN PROVERB The best armor is to keep out of range.
ITALIAN PROVERB Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.
ITALIAN PROVERB Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.
ITALIAN PROVERB If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.
ITALIAN PROVERB Substance is not enough, accident is also required.
ITALIAN PROVERB Speak of the Devil and he appears.
ITALIAN PROVERB Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.
ITALIAN PROVERB Money begets money.
ITALIAN PROVERB Moderate profits fill the purse.
ITALIAN PROVERB The person who lives by hope will die by despair.
ITALIAN PROVERB Our last garment is made without pockets.
ITALIAN PROVERB Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
ITALIAN PROVERB When the danger is past God is cheated.
ITALIAN PROVERB Misfortune does not always result in harm.
ITALIAN PROVERB The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
ITALIAN PROVERB Hunger is the best sauce.
ITALIAN PROVERB He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
ITALIAN PROVERB He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.
ITALIAN PROVERB Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.
ITALIAN PROVERB He that jokes confesses.
ITALIAN PROVERB He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
ITALIAN PROVERB The healthy die first.
ITALIAN PROVERB Big mouthfuls often choke.
ITALIAN PROVERB The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.
ITALIAN PROVERB The right man comes at the right time.
ITALIAN PROVERB Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.
ITALIAN PROVERB He who knows little quickly tells it.
ITALIAN PROVERB If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
ITALIAN PROVERB When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.
ITALIAN PROVERB At a round table there is no dispute about place.
ITALIAN PROVERB Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.
ITALIAN PROVERB Beware of one who has nothing to lose.
ITALIAN PROVERB To him who is determined it remains only to act.
ITALIAN PROVERB Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
ITALIAN PROVERB He who is not impatient is not in love.
ITALIAN PROVERB A little man often cast a long shadow.
ITALIAN PROVERB Old wine and friends improve with age.
ITALIAN PROVERB Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
ITALIAN PROVERB Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
ITALIAN PROVERB Often he who does too much does too little.
ITALIAN PROVERB After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.
ITALIAN PROVERB Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad.
ITALIAN PROVERB Bed is the poor man's opera
ITALIAN PROVERB To him that watches, everything is revealed.
ITALIAN PROVERB Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
ITALIAN PROVERB Years and sins are always more than owned.
ITALIAN PROVERB When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box
ITALIAN PROVERB If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy woul...
ITALIAN PROVERB To a quick question, give a slow answer.
ITALIAN PROVERB One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.
ITALIAN PROVERB Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
ITALIAN PROVERB It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
ITALIAN PROVERB If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
ITALIAN PROVERB He who begins many things finishes but few.
ITALIAN PROVERB Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
ITALIAN PROVERB Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
ITALIAN PROVERB By learning to obey, you will know how to command.
ITALIAN PROVERB By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible.
ITALIAN PROVERB Better no law than laws not enforced.
ITALIAN PROVERB After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
ITALIAN PROVERB A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have.
ITALIAN PROVERB Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it
ITALIAN PROVERB When the ship has sunk everyone knows how she might have been saved
ITALIAN PROVERB He dances well to whom fortune pipes
ITALIAN PROVERB One pair of ears would exhaust a hundred tongues.
ITALIAN PROVERB He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow
ITALIAN PROVERB The healthy die first
ITALIAN PROVERB The best armor is to keep out of range
ITALIAN PROVERB Beware the person with nothing to lose
ITALIAN PROVERB Anger can be an expensive luxury
ITALIAN PROVERB Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding
ITALIAN PROVERB He who wants Lent to seem short should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter
ITALIAN PROVERB He hauls at a long rope who expects another's death.
ITALIAN PROVERB To him who is determined it remains only to act
ITALIAN PROVERB One with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the person ready to die
ITALIAN PROVERB Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
ITALIAN PROVERB The devil turns away from a closed door.
ITALIAN PROVERB He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not
ITALIAN PROVERB When wine sinks, words swim.
ITALIAN PROVERB Six feet of earth make us all equal
ITALIAN PROVERB Of two cowards, the one who finds the other out first has the advantage
ITALIAN PROVERB The man who lives only by hope will die with despair
ITALIAN PROVERB Any plan is bad that cannot be changed
ITALIAN PROVERB Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas
ITALIAN PROVERB Silence was never written down
ITALIAN PROVERB One may have good eyes and yet see nothing
ITALIAN PROVERB He who is guilty believes all men speak ill of him
ITALIAN PROVERB Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves
ITALIAN PROVERB He that seeks to have many friends never has any
ITALIAN PROVERB He who begins many things finishes but few
ITALIAN PROVERB The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour
ITALIAN PROVERB A gift long expected is sold, not given
ITALIAN PROVERB By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible
ITALIAN PROVERB Better to ask than to go astray
ITALIAN PROVERB Let every fox take care of his own tail
ITALIAN PROVERB The rich never have to seek out their relatives
ITALIAN PROVERB One is never too old to yearn
ITALIAN PROVERB The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone
ITALIAN PROVERB He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by a wolf
ITALIAN PROVERB It's foolish sheep that makes the wolf its confessor
ITALIAN PROVERB A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three
ITALIAN PROVERB Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.
ITALIAN PROVERB At a round table there is no dispute about place
ITALIAN PROVERB Years and sins are always more than owned
ITALIAN PROVERB If you would be rich in a year, you may be hanged in six months
ITALIAN PROVERB It is easy to frighten a bull from the window
ITALIAN PROVERB He saith little that loveth much
ITALIAN PROVERB The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself
ITALIAN PROVERB Eggs have no business dancing with stones
ITALIAN PROVERB A man should learn to sail in all winds
ITALIAN PROVERB All are not saints who go to church
ITALIAN PROVERB He who is not impatient is not in love
ITALIAN PROVERB There is no worse robber than a bad book
ITALIAN PROVERB The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted
ITALIAN PROVERB All the honey a bee gathers during its lifetime doesn't sweeten its sting
ITALIAN PROVERB To a quick question, give a slow answer
ITALIAN PROVERB He who knows little quickly tells it
ITALIAN PROVERB It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets
ITALIAN PROVERB If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot
ITALIAN PROVERB A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
PROVERB To know and not to do is not to know
PROVERB Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB Silence implies consent.
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PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Kings have many ears and eyes.
PROVERB It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
PROVERB Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
PROVERB A soft answer turneth away wrath.
PROVERB Cunning surpasses strength.
PROVERB What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
PROVERB Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
PROVERB The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB Two great talkers will not travel far together.
PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
PROVERB A good speaker makes a good liar.
PROVERB Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB Speak when you are spoken to.
PROVERB Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
PROVERB Speak and the man shall be shown.
PROVERB The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
PROVERB Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
PROVERB You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
PROVERB Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
PROVERB Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
PROVERB What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
PROVERB Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
PROVERB How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
PROVERB Rest breeds rust.
PROVERB The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
PROVERB If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of...
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