Great Throughts Treasury

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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

War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.

Authenticity | Good | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mystery | Thought | Worth | Thought |

Italian Proverbs

The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger.

Right |

Italian Proverbs

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

Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

Italian Proverbs

There is no need to bind up one's head before it is broken.

Disgrace | Think |

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

Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.

Birth | Childhood | Death | Irony | Paradox | Religion | Time | Work |

Italian Proverbs

When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.

Self |

Italian Proverbs

While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

Italian Proverbs

The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

Public | Question |

Italian Proverbs

When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.

Respect | System | Respect |

Italian Proverbs

Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

Enough | Self |

Italian Proverbs

Where there is great love there is great pain.

Good | People | Right |

Italian Proverbs

Who hath no courage must have legs.

Events | War |

Italian Proverbs

The seemingly most respectable people are quiet often scoundrels; Evil people often act innocently.

Italian Proverbs

The sons of cats catch mice.

Right |

Italian Proverbs

The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.

Italian Proverbs

Today for me, and tomorrow for you.

Judgment | Wrong |

Italian Proverbs

When the danger has passed, the saints are soon forgotten.

Force |

Italian Proverbs

There's no place like home.

Government | Past | War | Government | Propaganda |