Italian proverbs

He who wants milk should not sit in the middle of a field and wait for a cow to back up to him.

The chamber-bell (chamber-clapper, or curtain lecture) is the worst sound one have in his ears.

If the patient dies, the doctor has killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him.

One with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the person ready to die.

If you let them put the calf on your shoulders, it will not be long before they clap on the cow.

He who is an ass and takes himself to be a stag finds his mistake when he comes to leap the ditch.

With art and knavery we live through half the year; with knavery and art we live through the other.

One with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the one who is ready to die.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot.

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