Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

Hope | World |

Italian Proverbs

There's no going to heaven in a sedan.

People | Public |

Italian Proverbs

When one door closes another opens.

Play | Will |

Italian Proverbs

The house completed, possession defeated.

Will | Woman |

Italian Proverbs

The covetous man is good to none and worst to himself.

Italian Proverbs

The more one knows, the less one believes.

Heart | Love | Will | Think |

Italian Proverbs

The tree is not felled at one blow.

Attention | Will |

Italian Proverbs

Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

Absence | Atheism | History | Means | Prayer | Public | Research | Rule |

Italian Proverbs

To move heaven and earth.

War | Will | Value |

Italian Proverbs

Two cocks in one yard do not agree.

Battle | Commitment | Faith | Need | Public | Reality | Religion | Will | Guilty |

Italian Proverbs

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Evil | God | Hope | Justice | Will | World | God |

Italian Proverbs

What costs little is little esteemed.

Enough | Humanity | Progress | Science | Will | Think |

Italian Proverbs

When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood.

Respect | Will | World | Respect |

Italian Proverbs

The well-fed man does not believe in hunger.

Means | Public | System |

Italian Proverbs

Who has no courage must have legs.

Creativity |

Italian Proverbs

There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.

Will |

Italian Proverbs

To a young heart everything is sport.

People | Public |

Italian Proverbs

Words are female, deeds are male.

Creed | Disbelief | God | Truth | Will | God |