This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
One is never too old to yearn.
Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |
Speak well of your friend; of your enemy neither well nor ill.
Global | Sense |
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 light is painful to sore eyes.
God | Religion | Respect | Will | Respect | God |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
The house completed, possession defeated.
Will | Woman |
The more one knows, the less one believes.
Heart | Love | Will | Think |
What shall I say when it is better to say nothing?
Body | Men | Mind | Reason |
The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot.
Global | Sense | Work |
The tree is not felled at one blow.
Attention | Will |