Sicilian proverbs

Who drinks at night, buys himself death, who drinks in bed, buys himself a coffin.

The fish was so fresh that it was being cooked while its tail was still in the sea.

Luck is the friend of jackasses and the crazy; it's a mortal enemy of the virtuous.

Uncollected olives, left at random fill neither the saddle bag nor the little sack.

Priests dressed in black bring bad tidings, in white they take you to the cemetery.

Don't maintain a friendship with cops because you'll lose your wine and your cigars.

Collect promptly, pay slowly; who knows, in case of an accident, you'll pay nothing.

If you invest a lot but don't maintain it, you won't even harvest enough to re-seed.

It is written in sacred scripture: where grass is growing you don't need fertilizer.

Love entered and you didn't realize it: you wanted to drive it out but you couldn't.

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