Proverbs and old sayings Italian about Man, page 6

116 proverbs and old sayings italian about man

Three things drive a man out of doors: smoke, dropping water, and a shrew.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

A fools knows his own business better than a wise man knows that of others.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

If the young man knew, if the old man could, there is nothing but would be done.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

For an honest man half his wits are enough; the whole is too little for a knave.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

Good riding at two anchors men have told, For it one break, the other yet may hold.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

Vexations, duly borne, Are but as trials, which heaven's love to man Sends for his good.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

A fool throws a stone into a well, and it requires a hundred wise men to get it out again.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

A book whos sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

A priest is a man who is called Father by everyone except his own children who are obliged to call him Uncle.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

He hangs the May-branch at every door. (Alluding to the Italian custom of young men hanging out May-branches overnight before the door of their mistress.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man