Corsican proverbs

A pound's worth of tears will not settle a penny's worth of debt.

There's no point in whistling at an ox who doesn't want to drink.

Misery and poverty are two sisters; discord is their first cousin.

He who goes slowly, goes surely; and he who goes surely, goes far.

Once grape gathering has finished, you have to hang up the basket.

Beautiful things are never as beautiful as those that are pleasing.

Santa Maria, Sich?: if you're not a thief you won't be happy there.

Ajaccio, Ajaccio, if you don't go there, you won't lose your money.

When the sky looks like a hot oven, if no rain today, rain tomorrow.

What a sad bench it is that has never been sat upon by a grey beard.

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