Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Thank you, pretty pussy, was the death of my cat.

Death | Good | Hypothesis | Individual | Phenomena | Sense | Loss |

Italian Proverbs

That that comes of a cat will catch mice.

Day | Faith | Reality | Reason | Will | World |

Italian Proverbs

ne with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the one who is ready to die.

Love |

Italian Proverbs

Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.

Individual | Thought | Will | Thought |

Italian Proverbs

One who makes his bed must lie in it.

Determination | People | Will | Work |

Italian Proverbs

The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.

Life | Life | Little | Practice | Precept | Sense | Govern |

Italian Proverbs

No day but has its evening.

Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |

Italian Proverbs

One is never too old to yearn.

Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |

Italian Proverbs

Never rub your eye but with your elbow.

Love |

Italian Proverbs

People get the government they deserve.

Better | Love | Relationship | Understand |

Italian Proverbs

So good that he is good for nothing.

Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |

Italian Proverbs

Speak well of your friend; of your enemy neither well nor ill.

Global | Sense |

Italian Proverbs

That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

Dawn | Evolution | History | Individual | Life | Life | Sense | Survival | Truth |

Italian Proverbs

The first blow is as good as two.

Courage | Mankind | Men | Peace | Strength | Tears | Will |

Italian Proverbs

The light is painful to sore eyes.

God | Religion | Respect | Will | Respect | God |

Italian Proverbs

The thief's wife does not always laugh.

Energy | Family | Little | Need | People | Regulation | Old |

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 |

Italian Proverbs

Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.

Men | Pain | Will |

Italian Proverbs

There is no helping him who will not be advised.

Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |

Italian Proverbs

There goes more than one ass to market.

Ideas | Love | Qualities | Blessed | Winning |