Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

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"A good paymaster does not hesitate to give good security."

"A good thing lost is valued."

"A good wife is the key to a good home."

"A good wife makes a good husband."

"A good name is the best of all treasures."

"A good start is half the battle"

"A greased mouth cannot say no."

"A hair of the dog cures the bite."

"A guest and a fish stink in three days."

"A great church and little devotion."

"A great man will not trample on a worm, nor sneak to an emperor."

"A great liar has need of good memory."

"A happy heart is better than a full purse."

"A hidden sin is half forgiven."

"A heavy shower is soon over."

"A hard beginning maketh a good ending."

"A honey tongue and a heart of gall."

"A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt."

"A horse grown fat kicks."

"A horse falls though he has four legs."

"A hungry ass eats any straw."

"A hundred-year-old revenge still has its baby teeth."

"A hungry belly has no ears."

"A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor."

"A king's favor is no inheritance."

"A hungry dog does not fear the stick."

"A kiss without a moustache is like beef without mustard."

"A jade eats as much as a good horse."

"A lawsuit is a fruit-tree planted in a lawyer's garden."

"A kitchen dog never was good for the chase."

"A lean horse does not kick."

"A liar is sooner caught than a cripple."

"A lifestyle that involves neither staying up late nor sleeping late is good for body and mind and leads to financial success."

"A little gall make a great deal of honey bitter."

"A little man often casts a long shadow."

"A little spark kindles a great fire."

"A little stream drives a great mill."

"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 loving man, a jealous man."

"A living dog is been than a dead lion."

"A mad parish, a mad priest."

"A man of straw needs a woman of gold."

"A lover's anger is short-lived."

"A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds."

"A man should learn to sail in all winds."

"A man warned is as good as two."

"A man was hanged for saying what was true."

"A man without a wife is a man without a master."