Italian proverbs

Chastise the good and he will mend, chastise the bad and he will grow worse.

He is like the anchor that is always in the sea, yet does not learn to swim.

Who dangles after the great is the last at table and the first to be cuffed.

There never was a shoe however handsome that did not become an ugly slipper.

One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for the weeds.

It is better to ride a donkey that carries you than a horse that throws you.

A woman's in pain, a woman's in woe, a woman is ill, when she likes to be so.

There is little peace in that house where the hen crows and the cock is mute.

He who builds a house in the market-place, builds either too high or too low.

You surround your vineyard with thorns - place doors and locks on your mouth.

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