Italian proverbs

The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow.

Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.

Friendships are cheap when they can be brought by doffing the hat.

The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone.

He is the world's master who despises it, its slave who prizes it.

From snow whether cooked or pounded you will get nothing but water.

He who has a glass roof should not throw stones at his neighbour's.

He who throws away money with his hands will seek it with his feet.

He is a friend when you sneeze -- all he says is ""God bless you.""

A ragged sack holds no grain, a poor man is not taken into counsel.

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