Absence is a foe to love; away from the eyes, away from the heart.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Absence, Eyes
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Miscellaneous, Adversity
He that jokes confesses.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Honesty
Substance is not enough, accident is also required.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Luck
In buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes tight and commend yourself to God.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Horses, Proverbs
He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Perfection, Proverbs, Realistic Expectations
He who begins many things finishes but few.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Goals, Aspirations
Often he who does too much does too little.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Concentration, Focus
He who knows little quickly tells it.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
A calamity that affects everyone is only half a calamity.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Misfortune
Hope is the last thing ever lost.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Hope, Aspirations
Many are brave when the enemy flees.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Enemies
Who would make money must begin by spending it.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Have you fifty friends?—it is not enough.—Have you one enemy?—it is too much.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Enemies
A cask of wine works more miracles than a church full of saints.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Miracles
A waiting appetite kindles many a spite.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Appetite
No one fouls his hands in his own business.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Business
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Reading, Books
The right man comes at the right time.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Leadership, Leaders
Drink water like an ox, wine like the king of Spain.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Kings
When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Punishment
One may have good eyes and see nothing.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Eyes
He dances well to whom fortune pipes
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Dance
The person who offends writes as if it was written on sand, and the person who is offended reads it as if it were written on marble.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Criticism
Break the legs of an evil custom.
—Italian Proverb
A lawsuit is a fruit-tree planted in a lawyer’s garden.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Garden, Lawyers
The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Influence, Leadership
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Humankind, Action
Who suffers from love, feels no pain.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Feelings
Men are as old as they feel, women as old as they look.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Feelings
Everyone gives himself credit for more brains than he has and less money.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Self-Discovery
If it rained macaroni, what a fine time for gluttons!
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Rain
The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Hope
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Death, Dying
Rice is born in water and must die in wine
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Eating, Proverbs
Patience is a plant that does not grow in everyone’s garden.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Garden
Think much, speak little, and write less.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Communication
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Experience
He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: Hope
Love rules without rules.
—Italian Proverb
Topics: One liners