Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Save something for the man that rides on the white horse.

Right | Study | Will |

Italian Proverbs

Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.

Power | Revolution | Will | World |

Italian Proverbs

Not all truths are proper to be told.

Life | Life |

Italian Proverbs

Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

Care | Heart |

Italian Proverbs

People in glass houses should not throw stones.

Personality | Will |

Italian Proverbs

The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

Italian Proverbs

No one ever became poor through giving alms.

Art | Design | Sense | Technology | Thinking | Will | Art |

Italian Proverbs

One enemy is too many and a hundred friends aren't enough.

Learning | Need | Will | Teacher |

Italian Proverbs

Rather have a little one for your friend, than a great one for your enemy.

Order | Sense |

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

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

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 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 is never too old to yearn.

Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |

Italian Proverbs

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

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

Italian Proverbs

The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.

Memory | Order | Rank |