This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.
Memory | Order | Rank |
The devil is bad because he is old.
Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |
The first blow is as good as two.
Courage | Mankind | Men | Peace | Strength | Tears | Will |
The light is painful to sore eyes.
God | Religion | Respect | Will | Respect | God |
The loquacity of fools is a lecture to the wise.
Death |
Two women and a goose make a market.
Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |
What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.
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 |
Who has no money must have no wishes.
Men | Worry |
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 |
When the head aches all the members languish.
Death | Order |
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 |
Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.
Birth | Childhood | Death | Irony | Paradox | Religion | Time | Work |
When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.
Self |