Italian proverbs

All ships leak: some amidships, some in the bows, some in the hold.

Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad.

Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

It is not spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies.

He who buys what he cannot pay for, sells what he would rather not.

He is not a thorough wise man who cannot play the fool on occasion.

If the hen had not cackled, we should not know she had laid an egg.

The poor is hated by his neighbour, but the rich hath many friends.

He who would stop every man's mouth must have a great deal of meal.

He that will not strive in this world should not have come into it.

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