This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.
Men | Pain | Will |
There is no helping him who will not be advised.
Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |
To the person with little shame, the whole world is his.
Capacity | Self | Time | Unity |
War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.
Authenticity | Good | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mystery | Thought | Worth | Thought |
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 |
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 |
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 |
The house completed, possession defeated.
Will | Woman |
The more one knows, the less one believes.
Heart | Love | Will | Think |
Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.
Life | Life |
The tree is not felled at one blow.
Attention | Will |