Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

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 |

Italian Proverbs

Who builds on the mob builds on sand.

Better | Ethics | People |

Italian Proverbs

Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over.

Good | Time |

Italian Proverbs

The wicked even hate vice in others.

Important | Time |

Italian Proverbs

When in trouble first of all every one himself should do his best to improve his condition.

Good | People |

Italian Proverbs

Where god has a church the devil will have his chapel.

People | Personality |

Italian Proverbs

There's no going to heaven in a sedan.

People | Public |

Italian Proverbs

Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry.

Memory | Time | Truth |

Italian Proverbs

When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

Dishonesty | Life | Life | Little | People | Reason | Self | Sense | Truth | Words | Think |

Italian Proverbs

Where there is great love there is great pain.

Good | People | Right |

Italian Proverbs

There is a cause for all things.

Intelligence | People |

Italian Proverbs

There's no getting to heaven in a coach.

Censor | Fear | People | Think |

Italian Proverbs

The water breaks out where it is not expected.

Truth |

Italian Proverbs

Today me, tomorrow thee.

Individual | People | Power |

Italian Proverbs

Two cocks in one yard do not agree.

Battle | Commitment | Faith | Need | Public | Reality | Religion | Will | Guilty |

Italian Proverbs

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Childhood | People | Personality |

Italian Proverbs

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

Character | Truth |

Italian Proverbs

The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.

Future | Present | Time |

Italian Proverbs

Things that has happened will happen again. Religious myths for example, which are allegorical, will per definition reoccur.

Time |

Italian Proverbs

When wine sinks, words swim.

Atheism | Better | Commitment | God | Life | Life | Reason | Right | Story | Suffering | Truth | Unique | God |