Sicilian proverbs

May waters drench peasants and lords or gentlemen, as many of them as it encounters.

If you don't want anyone to take your place, don't ever show that you're frightened.

Who leaves the old way for the new, the trouble not looked for, will be found there.

It's not polite to eat just the center of the cheese and just the crust of the bread.

While there's nothing to do in April, let out the herd to pasture with all the sheep.

When you work with anxiety during the day, you'll sit up at night with your thoughts.

Who stays at the master and doesn't learn, is either a jackass or pretends to be one.

There are some with thirty, some with thirty-one, with twenty-eight there is but one.

Who gets married will be happy for a day, who butchers a pig will be happy for a year.

Who pounds the water in the mortar, will get wet with the drops and will end up tired.

Proverbs.Citatepedia^®.com