Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

Italian Proverbs

When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

Share

Dishonesty | Life | Life | Little | People | Reason | Self | Sense | Truth | Words | Think |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

Where there is great love there is great pain.

Share

Good | People | Right |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

The house completed, possession defeated.

Share

Will | Woman |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

The more one knows, the less one believes.

Share

Heart | Love | Will | Think |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

The water breaks out where it is not expected.

Share

Truth |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

The sons of cats catch mice.

Share

Right |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

The tree is not felled at one blow.

Share

Attention | Will |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

Voice of one, voice of none.

Share

Belief | Distinguish | Ethics | God | Human nature | Inevitable | Life | Life | Morality | Nature | Need | Philosophy | Reason | Will | Wrong | God |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

To move heaven and earth.

Share

War | Will | Value |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

Two cocks in one yard do not agree.

Share

Battle | Commitment | Faith | Need | Public | Reality | Religion | Will | Guilty |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Share

Evil | God | Hope | Justice | Will | World | God |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

When your devil was born, mine was going to school.

Share

Character | Truth |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

The soldier is well paid for doing mischief.

Share

Administration | Decision | Global | Health | Policy | Right | Rights | Struggle |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

What costs little is little esteemed.

Share

Enough | Humanity | Progress | Science | Will | Think |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood.

Share

Respect | Will | World | Respect |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

When wine sinks, words swim.

Share

Atheism | Better | Commitment | God | Life | Life | Reason | Right | Story | Suffering | Truth | Unique | God |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Share

Absence | Atheism | Awareness | Awe | Cause | Fortune | Good | Gratitude | Ideas | Important | Insight | Language | Life | Life | Majority | Man | Myth | Need | Nothing | Object | Power | Prosperity | Question | Reality | Religion | Reputation | Reverence | Right | Sacred | Sense | Truth | Understanding | World | Awareness | Understand |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

To protest and knock one's head against the wall is what everybody can do.

Share

Good | Ignorance | Truth |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.

Share

Will |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

Who takes an eel by the tail and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing.

Share

Love |

View Author