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Italian Proverbs
To the person with little shame, the whole world is his.
Capacity | Self | Time | Unity |
Who has a head of wax should not be in the sunshine.
World |
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 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 |
Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.
Birth | Childhood | Death | Irony | Paradox | Religion | Time | Work |
Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over.
Good | Time |
The wicked even hate vice in others.
Important | Time |
Who has patience sees his revenge.
Enough | Nature |
The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.
Hope | World |
Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry.
Memory | Time | Truth |
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 liar needs a good memory.
The tree is not felled at one blow.
Attention | Will |
Think much, speak little and write less.
Reform | World |