Sicilian proverbs

It's a great advantage to love someone in your neighborhood: you see each other often and you don't have to travel.

The cowherd who has fodder has bread, and if he doesn't have fodder then he ends up without oxen and without bread.

Nunziata, fix the salad, a little vinegar, lots of oil, four reckless mouthfuls, and then some drinks from the jug.

The ideal is a four year old dog, an eight year old horse, an eighteen year old woman and a twenty eight year old man.

The man who marries gives up liberty and accepts responsibility and it's said: The poor guy, who would have thought it.

If you want to be happy, love the one who loves you, because it's a waste of time to love someone who doesn't love you.

Don't go to the doctor for every malady, nor to the lawyer for every disagreement, nor to the fountain for every thirst.

When the ripened ears are full and fall over, as if in sleep, the farmer awakens, that is to say, he begins the harvest.

If she's a nun in the abbey, she treats Jesus as an owner, but if she's a nun in the home, she serves Jesus and kisses him.

When it rains in the morning, take the plow and start sowing; when it rains between Vespers and nightfall, put on your boots.

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