Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Precocious children will mean much trouble later on.

People | Gossip |

Italian Proverbs

No one ever kicks a dead dog.

Art | Means | People | Art |

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

Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.

People |

Italian Proverbs

No day but has its evening.

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

Italian Proverbs

One eye of the master sees more than four eyes of his servants.

Nothing | People |

Italian Proverbs

One is never too old to yearn.

Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |

Italian Proverbs

So good that he is good for nothing.

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

Italian Proverbs

The first blow is as good as two.

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

Italian Proverbs

The fruit of a good tree is also good.

Need | People | Understand |

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

Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail.

Government | Guilt | People | Public | Truth | Warning | Government |

Italian Proverbs

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

People |

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

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

People |

Italian Proverbs

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

Hope | People | Understanding |