Sicilian proverbs

When the fields are flooded you'll have hunger, when they're snow covered there'll be plenty to eat.

Prepare the sickles in May, use the sickles in June, and in July carry the sickles to the tool shed.

When in March sun and water are taking turns with water and sun, the mules end up doing the carrying.

The rich man breaks through the mesh and escapes, the afflicted man remains in the net and is caught.

Don't tell your friend everything that you know; remember that one day you may have him for an enemy.

The young man plays the flute, the middle aged man plays the harpsichord, the old man plays the organ.

Eat little and you'll live, speak little and you'll get it right, spend little and you'll become rich.

If you show a rich man kindness, you gain nothing, but when you wrong him he avenges himself instantly.

Who has never had good sense, and by age thirty still doesn't, certainly will never have it after that.

Three things make a man rich: Earning and not spending, promising and not doing, buying and not selling.

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