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Italian Proverbs
The thief's wife does not always laugh.
Energy | Family | Little | Need | People | Regulation | Old |
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 |
Who has no shame all the world is his own.
Power |
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 |
To confessor, doctor, and lawyer do not hide the truth.
Harm | News | Rights |
The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.
Hope | World |
When one door closes another opens.
Play | Will |
The house completed, possession defeated.
Will | Woman |
The covetous man is good to none and worst to himself.
The more one knows, the less one believes.
Heart | Love | Will | Think |
The tree is not felled at one blow.
Attention | Will |
Today me, tomorrow thee.
Individual | People | Power |
Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.
Absence | Atheism | History | Means | Prayer | Public | Research | Rule |