Think much, speak little, and write less.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Communication
Beware of one who has nothing to lose.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Caution
Moderate profits fill the purse.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Moderation, Profit
Marriages are not as they are made, but as they turn out.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Marriage
In buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes tight and commend yourself to God.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Horses, Proverbs
The dying cannot leave their wisdom or experience to their heirs.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Experience
The rich never have to seek out their relatives.
—Italian Proverb
The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Sin
He who knows little quickly tells it.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Humankind, Action
Applaud the man who cheats a cheater.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Cheating
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Communication, Listening, Proverbs
It is not for the blind to give an opinion on colors.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Opinion
Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Leaders, Leadership
Misfortune does not always result in harm.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Misfortunes, Fortune
To him who is determined it remains only to act.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Determination
Old wine and friends improve with age.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Age, Alcoholism, Alcohol
The right man comes at the right time.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Leaders, Leadership
Voice of one, voice of none.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Power
When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Punishment
He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Speaking, Speakers
Silence was never written down.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Silence
Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Welfare
If you have a good cellar at home don’t go drinking at the tavern.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Home
He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Hope
The priest’s friend loses his faith, the doctor’s his health, and the lawyer’s his fortune.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Lawyers
To be lucky you need a little wit.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Luck
There’s no thief like a bad book.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Book
Of three things the devil makes a salad: lawyers’ tongues, notaries’ fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.
—Italian Proverb
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Influence, Leadership, Sleeping
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