This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
One is never too old to yearn.
Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |
The devil is bad because he is old.
Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |
The first blow is as good as two.
Courage | Mankind | Men | Peace | Strength | Tears | Will |
The light is painful to sore eyes.
God | Religion | Respect | Will | Respect | God |
Two women and a goose make a market.
Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |
When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.
Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |
Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.
Men | Pain | Will |
There is no beard so well shaven but another barber will find something more to shave from it.
Better | Opinion | Question | World |
There is no helping him who will not be advised.
Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |
War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.
Authenticity | Good | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mystery | Thought | Worth | Thought |
Who has a head of wax should not be in the sunshine.
World |
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 |
When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.
Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |
The right man comes at the right time.
Government | Looks | Means | Opportunity | Safe | Worry | Government | Think |
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 |
Who has never done thinking never begins doing.
Control | Story |
The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.
Hope | World |