This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.
Dawn | Evolution | History | Individual | Life | Life | Sense | Survival | Truth |
The first blow is as good as two.
Courage | Mankind | Men | Peace | Strength | Tears | Will |
The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
Man |
The light is painful to sore eyes.
God | Religion | Respect | Will | Respect | God |
Two women and a goose make a market.
Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |
When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.
Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |
Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.
Men | Pain | Will |
There is no helping him who will not be advised.
Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |
War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.
Authenticity | Good | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mystery | Thought | Worth | Thought |
The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.
Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |
The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.
Will | World |
There are many roads to Rome.
Anger | Enough | Will |
War begun, hell unchained.
Character | Display | Will |
When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.
Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |
The right man comes at the right time.
Government | Looks | Means | Opportunity | Safe | Worry | Government | Think |
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 |
When one door closes another opens.
Play | Will |
The house completed, possession defeated.
Will | Woman |
The more one knows, the less one believes.
Heart | Love | Will | Think |
The tree is not felled at one blow.
Attention | Will |