This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
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 |
Saying is one thing, doing another.
Goals | People | Pleasure | Progress | Success | Work |
The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.
Design |
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 |
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 |
Two women and a goose make a market.
Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |
What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.
When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.
Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |
The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.
Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |
When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.
Self |