Sicilian proverbs

An evening rainbow means good weather in the morning, a rainbow in the morning fills wells and fountains.

God save you from narrow doorways, a caning, stones thrown at the blind and the weighing of shop keepers.

If you continually harvest without fertilizing the land will soon be exhausted and you'll have bad years.

When the screech-owl sings, you can try to go to work for someone else if you're working for a bad owner.

Choose her for her beauty and even choose her without a dowry because from her beauty you'll get pleasure.

Don't leave the small quantity to get the big quantity because you might lose the one as well as the other.

The choice oil is from the surface, the best wine is from the middle, and the best honey is from the bottom.

Don't confide secrets to your wife, don't rent if your house has a pergola, don't have cops as a godfathers.

When the moon is pale, it will rain; when it's red, it will be windy and when it's clear, it will be serene.

If the young had the motivation and the old had the strength, there'd be nothing that couldn't be accomplished.

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