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Italian Proverbs
No one ever became poor through giving alms.
Art | Design | Sense | Technology | Thinking | Will | Art |
Starting properly ensures the speedy completion of a process. A beginning is often blocked by one or more obstacles (potential barriers) the removal of which may ensure the smooth course of the process.
Office | People | Question | Will |
Needs must when the devil drives.
Harmony | Object | Time |
No day but has its evening.
Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |
No one gets rich quickly if he is honest.
Money | Research | Time |
So good that he is good for nothing.
Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |
The devil is bad because he is old.
Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |
The first blow is as good as two.
Courage | Mankind | Men | Peace | Strength | Tears | Will |
When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.
Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |
There is no beard so well shaven but another barber will find something more to shave from it.
Better | Opinion | Question | World |
There is no helping him who will not be advised.
Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |
To every saint his torch.
Effort | Good | Hope | Important | Question |
To the person with little shame, the whole world is his.
Capacity | Self | Time | Unity |
The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.
Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |
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 virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.
Public | Question |
The wicked even hate vice in others.
Important | Time |