Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Thank you, pretty pussy, was the death of my cat.

Death | Good | Hypothesis | Individual | Phenomena | Sense | Loss |

Italian Proverbs

No one ever kicks a dead dog.

Art | Means | People | Art |

Italian Proverbs

Speak of the Devil and he appears.

Means |

Italian Proverbs

The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.

Life | Life | Little | Practice | Precept | Sense | Govern |

Italian Proverbs

No one likes justice brought home to his own door.

System |

Italian Proverbs

Sons may look and behave like their fathers. This is due to inheritance and the example observed closely and daily.

Belief | Truth |

Italian Proverbs

Speak well of your friend; of your enemy neither well nor ill.

Global | Sense |

Italian Proverbs

That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

Dawn | Evolution | History | Individual | Life | Life | Sense | Survival | Truth |

Italian Proverbs

Two women and a goose make a market.

Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |

Italian Proverbs

War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.

Authenticity | Good | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mystery | Thought | Worth | Thought |

Italian Proverbs

The right man comes at the right time.

Government | Looks | Means | Opportunity | Safe | Worry | Government | Think |

Italian Proverbs

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 |

Italian Proverbs

We learn by teaching.

Belief | Wife |

Italian Proverbs

When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.

Respect | System | Respect |

Italian Proverbs

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 |

Italian Proverbs

The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot.

Global | Sense | Work |

Italian Proverbs

Those who sleep don't catch any fish.

Sense |

Italian Proverbs

Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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

Italian Proverbs

Who by himself can do anything, do not wait for others to do.

Commitment | Good | Means | Mystery | Object | Religion |