Maltese proverbs

The world is nonsense: what looks beautiful in the morning looks ugly in the evening.

The good die first: And those, whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket.

A lovely girl attracts attention by her good looks, an ugly girl by the help of a mirror.

A woman who does not understand by a look of the eye won't understand by a box of the fist.

I am dead. It is as if everybody were dead. Let the man left behind shut the door if he wants to.

If the man lets a woman know what he has got in his saving box, she will marry him for his money.

After taking ninety-nine years to climb a stairway, the tortoise falls and says there is a curse on haste.

A neck without a head, buttocks without a hole and a girl without shame are not worth admiring or marrying.

Your soul to God, your body to dust, your property to your relatives, because thus it has been found written.

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