Great Throughts Treasury

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Related Quotes

Italian Proverbs

One fool is enough in a house.

Character | Suppression | Intellect |

Italian Proverbs

The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

Italian Proverbs

Old friends are always new.

Books | Character |

Italian Proverbs

War begun, hell unchained.

Character | Display | Will |

Italian Proverbs

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 |

Italian Proverbs

Two dogs fight for a bone and a third runs away with it.

Character | Majority |

Italian Proverbs

True love never grows old.

Character | Good |

Italian Proverbs

When the devil is old he turns hermit.

Character | Effort |

Italian Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

Character | Consistency |

Italian Proverbs

When your devil was born, mine was going to school.

Character | Truth |

Italian Proverbs

Wise men change their minds, fools never.

Ability | Attention | Day | Good | Greed | Habit | People | Selfishness |