This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
One who makes his bed must lie in it.
Determination | People | Will | Work |
No day but has its evening.
Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |
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 |
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 |
The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.
Mind |
There is no helping him who will not be advised.
Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |
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 |
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 |
When one door closes another opens.
Play | Will |
The house completed, possession defeated.
Will | Woman |
The more one knows, the less one believes.
Heart | Love | Will | Think |
What shall I say when it is better to say nothing?
Body | Men | Mind | Reason |
The tree is not felled at one blow.
Attention | Will |