Absence is the enemy of love.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Absence, Enemies, Proverbs
Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Money
Do good and care not to whom.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Kindness
Count your nights by stars, not shadows; count your life with smiles, not tears.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Smile
Hope is the last thing ever lost.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Aspirations, Hope
One may have good eyes and see nothing.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Eyes
He who is not impatient is not in love.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Love, Patience
He that jokes confesses.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Honesty
If it rained macaroni, what a fine time for gluttons!
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Rain
Happiness that lasts too long spoils the heart.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Heart, Happiness
A hundred-year-old revenge still has its baby teeth.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Revenge
He who knows little quickly tells it.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Speakers, Speaking
The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Sin
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Communication, Listening, Proverbs
Misfortune does not always result in harm.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Misfortunes, Fortune
The cheat always lies at the feet of the cheated.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Cheating
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Humankind, Action
The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Fools, Foolishness
He dances well to whom fortune pipes
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Dance
The best way to get praise is to die.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Praise
Substance is not enough, accident is also required.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Luck
He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Perfection, Realistic Expectations, Proverbs
The dying cannot leave their wisdom or experience to their heirs.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Experience
He who wants Lent to seem short should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
Of what does not concern you, say nothing good or bad.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Communication
Of three things the devil makes a salad: lawyers’ tongues, notaries’ fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.
—Italian Proverb
To forget a wrong is the best revenge.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Forgiveness
The rich never have to seek out their relatives.
—Italian Proverb
If you dig a pit for others, you might fall into it yourself!
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Cheating
If you have a good cellar at home don’t go drinking at the tavern.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Home
He is a friend when you sneeze—all he says is “God bless you.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Blessings
The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Eyes
No one fouls his hands in his own business.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Business
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.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Sympathy
Never point out the mistakes of another with a dirty finger.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Mistakes
Voice of one, voice of none.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Power
Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Conscience
Nothing improves the taste of pasta more than a good appetite.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Appetite
Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Reason