Sicilian proverbs

If you have to have animals in your house, don't have either a dog or a cat with a red coat.

Before it's ready to eat the fig must be mature, dripping, with a bent neck and a thin skin.

The soul goes to God, the body to the earth, and belongings to those to whom they should go.

For the very best, drink milk from the goat, ricotta from the sheep and cheese from the cow.

Don't be foolish and awe struck, because foolishness is telling but cursing doesn't hit home.

With everything Messina has the port, but for beautiful Palermo it is always just an orchard.

On Saint Candelora day, if it's snowing or raining, there'll be another forty days of winter.

If the winter doesn't winter, and the summer doesn't summer, the farmstead will be in trouble.

Don't pay a single gold coin for the sorrell, but when he's good, be ready to spend a fortune.

Saints sleep three hours, merchants sleep five, ordinary people seven and the lazy sleep nine.

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