Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Starting properly ensures the speedy completion of a process. A beginning is often blocked by one or more obstacles (potential barriers) the removal of which may ensure the smooth course of the process.

Office | People | Question | Will |

Italian Proverbs

That which the wise man does first, the fool does last.

People | Present | Relationship |

Italian Proverbs

The best way to get praise is to die.

Fun | Memory | Training |

Italian Proverbs

The danger past, the saint cheated.

Children | Memory |

Italian Proverbs

That that comes of a cat will catch mice.

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

Italian Proverbs

My No is as good as your Yes.

Think |

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

No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.

Efficiency | Knowledge | Money | World |

Italian Proverbs

Precocious children will mean much trouble later on.

People | Gossip |

Italian Proverbs

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

Experience | Nature | Organization |

Italian Proverbs

No one ever kicks a dead dog.

Art | Means | People | Art |

Italian Proverbs

Nothing venture, nothing have.

Comfort | God | Light | Looks | God |

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

The best way to conquer or control a group of people is by encouraging them to fight among themselves rather than allowing them to unite in opposition to the ruling authority.

Life | Life |

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 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 |