More Italian Proverbs
- When the devil caresses you, he wants your soul.
- God guards me from my friends; I guard myself from my enemies.
- Where gold speaks, every tongue is silent.
- There’s a sea between saying and doing.
- Like the cheese on macaroni.
- Idleness is the father of all vices.
- Where there is no temptation there is no glory.
- Old sins have long shadows.
- A house without a woman is like a lantern without the light.
- Time passes and does not return.
- When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.
- God listens to short prayers.
- The wolf is made bigger than it is.
- Bread opens all mouths.
- Eat well, laugh often, love much.
- He who knows most, talks least.
- Give them a finger and they’ll take an arm.
- Help yourself so that God will help you.
- He who is not with me is against me.
- He who does evil, is never short of an excuse.
- It’s easy to scare a bull from a window.
- Good seed makes good fruit.
- He who perseveres wins at last.
- He who looks for evil generally finds it.
- To seek the hair in the egg, to pick faults where there are none.
- A meal without wine is a day without sunshine.
- United we stand, divided we fall; Union is strength.