This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Italian Proverbs
One who makes his bed must lie in it.
Determination | People | Will | Work |
No day but has its evening.
Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |
One is never too old to yearn.
Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |
So good that he is good for nothing.
Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |
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 |
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 |
There is no helping him who will not be advised.
Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |
The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger.
Right |
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 |
When one door closes another opens.
Play | Will |
Where there is great love there is great pain.
Good | People | Right |
The house completed, possession defeated.
Will | Woman |
The more one knows, the less one believes.
Heart | Love | Will | Think |