Sicilian proverbs

The man with a fixed income lives with anxiety and suffers as the costs of goods fluctuate.

Prepare the fallow field well enough and you'll be free to go off and gather the hemp ties.

During April rainfalls the pig gets butchered, the oxen gets fattened and the sheep laughs.

Better a woman who is dark-skinned and gracious, than one who is light-skinned and insipid.

If you want to experience the pains of hell, spend winter in Messina and summer in Palermo.

If you marry you'll suffer in your youth, if you don't marry you'll suffer in your old age.

Capacious as the sleeve of a monk and patient as the priest with his arms across his chest.

The promises of love and the smoke of a chimney, washed by water and blown away by the wind.

To get the best dowry, marry the poor man's first daughter but the rich man's last daughter.

Who seizes too much with his own hand, will have everything slip away and will hold nothing.

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