Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.

Hope | People | Understanding |

Italian Proverbs

Who has a head of wax should not be in the sunshine.

World |

Italian Proverbs

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

Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

Italian Proverbs

The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

Will | World |

Italian Proverbs

There are many roads to Rome.

Anger | Enough | Will |

Italian Proverbs

War begun, hell unchained.

Character | Display | Will |

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

When wine enters modesty departs.

Ideas | People |

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

We learn by teaching.

Belief | Wife |

Italian Proverbs

The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

Hope | World |

Italian Proverbs

When one door closes another opens.

Play | Will |

Italian Proverbs

The house completed, possession defeated.

Will | Woman |

Italian Proverbs

The more one knows, the less one believes.

Heart | Love | Will | Think |

Italian Proverbs

Who has no children does not know what love is.

Hope | Order | Space |

Italian Proverbs

The liar needs a good memory.

World |

Italian Proverbs

The tree is not felled at one blow.

Attention | Will |

Italian Proverbs

Think much, speak little and write less.

Reform | World |

Italian Proverbs

To move heaven and earth.

War | Will | Value |