Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

There is no helping him who will not be advised.

Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |

Italian Proverbs

The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.

Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

Italian Proverbs

The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

Will | World |

Italian Proverbs

There are many roads to Rome.

Anger | Enough | Will |

Italian Proverbs

War begun, hell unchained.

Character | Display | Will |

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

To confessor, doctor, and lawyer do not hide the truth.

Harm | News | Rights |

Italian Proverbs

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

Respect | System | Respect |

Italian Proverbs

The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

Hope | World |

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

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 |