Italian Proverb Quotes

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

Beware the person with nothing to lose.

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.

Silence was never written down.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Moderate profits fill the purse.

Anger can be an expensive luxury.

One is never too old to yearn.

When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.

There is no worse robber than a bad book.

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets.

Big mouthfuls often choke.

At a round table there is no dispute about place.

If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

To a quick question, give a slow answer.