Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

One good morsel and a hundred vexations.

Mind | Need | People |

Italian Proverbs

No good lawyer ever goes to court himself.

Ability | Balance | Technology | Work |

Italian Proverbs

None so deaf as those who will not hear.

Beauty | Gloom | Humanity | Power | Soul | Spirit | Will | Beauty |

Italian Proverbs

Much smoke, and little roast.

Life | Life | Television | World | Understand |

Italian Proverbs

Not all truths are proper to be told.

Life | Life |

Italian Proverbs

Shame take him that shame thinketh.

Love | People |

Italian Proverbs

The best advice one can give to the hungry is bread.

Memory | Understand |

Italian Proverbs

The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.

Design |

Italian Proverbs

The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

Italian Proverbs

One enemy is too much, and a hundred friends are not enough.

Italian Proverbs

Smooth words make smooth ways.

World |

Italian Proverbs

ne with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the one who is ready to die.

Love |

Italian Proverbs

One who makes his bed must lie in it.

Determination | People | Will | Work |

Italian Proverbs

Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.

People |

Italian Proverbs

The best way to conquer or control a group of people is by encouraging them to fight among themselves rather than allowing them to unite in opposition to the ruling authority.

Life | Life |

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 day but has its evening.

Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |

Italian Proverbs

One is never too old to yearn.

Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |

Italian Proverbs

Never rub your eye but with your elbow.

Love |

Italian Proverbs

One devil drives out another.

Better | Organization | Virtue | Virtue |