This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
One good morsel and a hundred vexations.
Mind | Need | People |
None so deaf as those who will not hear.
Beauty | Gloom | Humanity | Power | Soul | Spirit | Will | Beauty |
Out of a great evil often comes a great good.
Order | Universe |
Softly, barber, the water scalds.
Balance | Rights | System | Wise |
The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.
Design |
Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant.
Universe |
The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.
Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |
One enemy is too much, and a hundred friends are not enough.
Smooth words make smooth ways.
World |
One who makes his bed must lie in it.
Determination | People | Will | Work |
Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.
People |
The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.
Life | Life | Little | Practice | Precept | Sense | Govern |
No one likes justice brought home to his own door.
System |
One devil drives out another.
Better | Organization | Virtue | Virtue |
The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.
Memory | Order | Rank |
The devil is bad because he is old.
Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |
Two women and a goose make a market.
Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |
What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.
When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.
Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |
The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.
Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |