This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
No day but has its evening.
Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |
One is never too old to yearn.
Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |
The cat loves fish, but is sloth to wet her feet.
Computer | Procrastination |
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 |
The light is painful to sore eyes.
God | Religion | Respect | Will | Respect | God |
The thief's wife does not always laugh.
Energy | Family | Little | Need | People | Regulation | Old |
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 |
The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.
Mind |
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 |
We learn by teaching.
Belief | Wife |
To confessor, doctor, and lawyer do not hide the truth.
Harm | News | Rights |
The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.
Hope | World |
When one door closes another opens.
Play | Will |