Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Step by step one goes to Rome.

History |

Italian Proverbs

Take the will for the deed.

Focus | Government | People | Price | Government |

Italian Proverbs

Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad.

Consideration | Man | Nothing |

Italian Proverbs

No news is good news.

Innovation |

Italian Proverbs

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Affliction | Gloom | Light |

Italian Proverbs

One good morsel and a hundred vexations.

Mind | Need | People |

Italian Proverbs

So many countries, so many customs.

People | Position | Rule | Speech |

Italian Proverbs

Penny and penny laid up will be many.

Diversity | People | Understanding | Understand |

Italian Proverbs

Saying is one thing, doing another.

Goals | People | Pleasure | Progress | Success | Work |

Italian Proverbs

One must have been controlled in the same situation one wishes to properly control others.

Change | People | World | Think |

Italian Proverbs

Skill or fortune will efface the spots.

Evidence | Feelings | Little | People | Understand |

Italian Proverbs

She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.

Italian Proverbs

Shame take him that shame thinketh.

Love | People |

Italian Proverbs

Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

Care | Heart |

Italian Proverbs

No sooner is the law made than its evasion is discovered.

Evil | Men |

Italian Proverbs

Once resolved, the trouble is over.

Church | Counsel | Rest | Counsel |

Italian Proverbs

Starting properly ensures the speedy completion of a process. A beginning is often blocked by one or more obstacles (potential barriers) the removal of which may ensure the smooth course of the process.

Office | People | Question | Will |

Italian Proverbs

That which the wise man does first, the fool does last.

People | Present | Relationship |

Italian Proverbs

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Society | Success | Society |

Italian Proverbs

Precocious children will mean much trouble later on.

People | Gossip |