This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.
Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |
Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.
Man |
Old friends are always new.
Books | Character |
The devil is bad because he is old.
Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |
The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
Two women and a goose make a market.
Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |
There is no beard so well shaven but another barber will find something more to shave from it.
Better | Opinion | Question | World |
Who has a head of wax should not be in the sunshine.
World |
The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.
Will | World |
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 |
Two dogs fight for a bone and a third runs away with it.
Character | Majority |
The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.
Hope | World |
True love never grows old.
Character | Good |
When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.
Dishonesty | Life | Life | Little | People | Reason | Self | Sense | Truth | Words | Think |
When the devil is old he turns hermit.
Character | Effort |
When the wine is in, the wit is out.
Character | Consistency |
The liar needs a good memory.
Think much, speak little and write less.
Reform | World |
When gold speaks every tongue is silent.
Evil | God | Hope | Justice | Will | World | God |