Sicilian proverbs

The oil merchant handles gold and diamonds; the grain merchant does business with silver, but the wine merchant is a poor man.

If you don't know by age twenty, don't do by age thrity, don't have by age forty, you will never know, never do, and never have.

From the woods a beautiful pheasant, from the sea a beautiful moray eel, from the river a den eel, from the cage a beautiful chicken.

When the olive tree blooms during April, olives are harvested with barrels, when it blossoms in June, they are harvested in handfuls.

When you're invited, eat heartily, because if they like you they'll laugh, and if they don't like you they'll feel the pangs of death.

If you want bread go to Agrigento, if you want pasta go to Licata, ask for money from the people in Aci, oil and sumac from the Terminesi.

There are four things to which you should not lend credence: love of women, the charity of friars, sun in the winter, and clouds in the summer.

Who gets married to a thin woman will know bitterness and strife, who marries a plump woman will be contented at the table and sleeping chamber.

In the head of the pig there's something to take and something to leave; in the head of the rabbit there's nothing to leave and nothing to take.

At C?ccamu there are the boors at Termini the brunette slaves; and at Palermo long-stemmed roses, beautiful on the outside and rotten on the inside.

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