Sicilian proverbs

Open your eyes and your ears when contracting, because the agreed upon circumstances mean a lot.

Monreale, a city without comfort, either it rains, or the wind blows, or bells ring for the dead.

A hitch makes a calf, a sty makes a pig, the open field makes lamb, the hay barn makes a kid goat.

Who has many comforts and does not use them, won't find a confessor who will grant him absolution.

When you go to steal a sheep and you're succeeding, take a big one because the small one will grow.

From twenty to thirty, neither pulling nor pushing, from thirty on up a woman is of no further use.

A sick person can eat a fig that's ringed with a crown; the burgisotta fig is a treat for the girl.

You drive a donkey with a stick, an ox and a mule with a prod, and the horse with a whip and spurs.

As you pay the price with the fertilizer, the hoe and pruning determines the harvest of the olives.

There are three who have to give an accounting to God; the judges, the priests, and the godparents.

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