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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 |
Where there are too many cooks the soup will be too salty.
Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.
Men | Pain | Will |
The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.
Mind |
There is no helping him who will not be advised.
Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |
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 |
Who has no shame all the world is his own.
Power |
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 |
When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.
Self |
While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.
The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.
Public | Question |
To confessor, doctor, and lawyer do not hide the truth.
Harm | News | Rights |
When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.
Respect | System | Respect |
The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.
Hope | World |
Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.
Enough | Self |
When one door closes another opens.
Play | Will |
Where there is great love there is great pain.
Good | People | Right |