Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.

Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |

Italian Proverbs

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

People |

Italian Proverbs

What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.

Hope | People | Understanding |

Italian Proverbs

Who excuses himself accuses himself.

People | Philosophy |

Italian Proverbs

Tis good feasting in other men's houses.

People |

Italian Proverbs

Trust not the praise of a friend nor the contempt of an enemy.

Good | People |

Italian Proverbs

When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her.

People |

Italian Proverbs

When wine enters modesty departs.

Ideas | People |

Italian Proverbs

Who builds on the mob builds on sand.

Better | Ethics | People |

Italian Proverbs

When in trouble first of all every one himself should do his best to improve his condition.

Good | People |

Italian Proverbs

Where god has a church the devil will have his chapel.

People | Personality |

Italian Proverbs

There's no going to heaven in a sedan.

People | Public |

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

Where there is great love there is great pain.

Good | People | Right |

Italian Proverbs

There is a cause for all things.

Intelligence | People |

Italian Proverbs

There's no getting to heaven in a coach.

Censor | Fear | People | Think |

Italian Proverbs

Today me, tomorrow thee.

Individual | People | Power |

Italian Proverbs

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Childhood | People | Personality |

Italian Proverbs

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Evil | God | Hope | Justice | Will | World | God |

Italian Proverbs

Where there is no temptation there is no glory.

Need | People | World |