Italian Proverbs

To the person with little shame, the whole world is his.

Capacity | Self | Time | Unity |

Italian Proverbs

War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.

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

Italian Proverbs

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

Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

Italian Proverbs

There is no need to bind up one's head before it is broken.

Disgrace | Think |

Italian Proverbs

When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.

Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |

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

Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.

Birth | Childhood | Death | Irony | Paradox | Religion | Time | Work |

Italian Proverbs

When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.

Self |

Italian Proverbs

While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

Italian Proverbs

Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over.

Good | Time |

Italian Proverbs

The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

Public | Question |

Italian Proverbs

The wicked even hate vice in others.

Important | Time |

Italian Proverbs

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

Respect | System | Respect |

Italian Proverbs

Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

Enough | Self |

Italian Proverbs

Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry.

Memory | Time | Truth |

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 seemingly most respectable people are quiet often scoundrels; Evil people often act innocently.

Italian Proverbs

Who has no children does not know what love is.

Hope | Order | Space |

Italian Proverbs

Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.

Life | Life |

Italian Proverbs

The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.