This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
One good morsel and a hundred vexations.
Mind | Need | People |
None so deaf as those who will not hear.
Beauty | Gloom | Humanity | Power | Soul | Spirit | Will | Beauty |
One should learn to sail in all winds.
Future | Will |
The difficult thing is to get foot in the stirrup.
Books | Future | Wonder | Words |
She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.
The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.
Design |
The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.
Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |
One enemy is too much, and a hundred friends are not enough.
Smooth words make smooth ways.
World |
One can't enter Paradise in spite of the saints.
Calmness | Future | Good |
On a long journey even a straw is heavy.
Enough | Good | Man |
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Society | Success | Society |
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 |
One who makes his bed must lie in it.
Determination | People | Will | Work |
Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.
People |
The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.
Life | Life | Little | Practice | Precept | Sense | Govern |
One devil drives out another.
Better | Organization | Virtue | Virtue |
The back door is the one that robs the home.
Friends |
The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.
Memory | Order | Rank |