Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.

Life | Life | Little | Practice | Precept | Sense | Govern |

Italian Proverbs

One devil drives out another.

Better | Organization | Virtue | Virtue |

Italian Proverbs

The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.

Memory | Order | Rank |

Italian Proverbs

The devil is bad because he is old.

Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |

Italian Proverbs

The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.

Man |

Italian Proverbs

Two women and a goose make a market.

Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |

Italian Proverbs

What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

Italian Proverbs

When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.

Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |

Italian Proverbs

The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger.

Right |

Italian Proverbs

The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.

Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

Italian Proverbs

When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.

Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |

Italian Proverbs

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 |

Italian Proverbs

When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.

Self |

Italian Proverbs

While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

Italian Proverbs

The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

Public | Question |

Italian Proverbs

When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.

Respect | System | Respect |

Italian Proverbs

Who has patience sees his revenge.

Enough | Nature |

Italian Proverbs

Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

Enough | Self |

Italian Proverbs

Where there is great love there is great pain.

Good | People | Right |

Italian Proverbs

The seemingly most respectable people are quiet often scoundrels; Evil people often act innocently.