This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
One is never too old to yearn.
Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |
No one gets rich quickly if he is honest.
Money | Research | Time |
So good that he is good for nothing.
Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |
The devil is bad because he is old.
Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |
The first blow is as good as two.
Courage | Mankind | Men | Peace | Strength | Tears | Will |
The light is painful to sore eyes.
God | Religion | Respect | Will | Respect | God |
When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.
Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |
Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.
Men | Pain | Will |
There is no helping him who will not be advised.
Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |
To the person with little shame, the whole world is his.
Capacity | Self | Time | Unity |
The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.
Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |
The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.
Will | World |
There are many roads to Rome.
Anger | Enough | Will |
War begun, hell unchained.
Character | Display | Will |
The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.
Ability | Adventure | Character | Comfort | Convictions | Daring | Ideas | Injustice | Injustice | Love | Man | Men | Qualities | Sound | Suffering | Talking | Time | Universe | Will | Witness | Blessed | Old | Winning |
Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.
Birth | Childhood | Death | Irony | Paradox | Religion | Time | Work |
Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over.
Good | Time |
The wicked even hate vice in others.
Important | Time |
Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry.
Memory | Time | Truth |
When one door closes another opens.
Play | Will |