This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
The devil turns away from a closed door.
Nothing improves the taste of pasta more than a good appetite.
Control | People |
Of this world each man has as much as he takes.
Life | Life | Men |
The father a saint the son a devil.
Culture | Means |
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 |
She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.
The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.
Design |
No man is indispensable.
Computer | Wrong |
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 |
The eagle does not wage war against frogs.
Important |
The fear of war is worse than war itself.
Ability | Reason | Story | Thinking |
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 dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.
Memory | Order | Rank |
The devil is bad because he is old.
Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |