Give them a finger and they’ll take an arm.

More Italian Proverbs

• Skip the enjoyment that you will regret.
• Red wine makes good blood.
• Better late than never.
• You can’t have a full wine barrel and a drunk wife.
• Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
• Practice makes perfect.
• Love makes all men equal.
• When in Rome, do as the Romans.
• The calm is the virtue of the strong.
• If you don’t go you won’t see, if you don’t see you won’t know, if you don’t know you’ll take it in the ass every time.
• Better one day as a lion than a hundred as a sheep.
• No news is good news.
• Those who act, make mistakes; and those who do nothing really blunder.
• The hasty cat gave birth to blind kittens.
• Gluttony kills more than the sword.
• Something is still better than nothing.
• Either eat this soup or jump out of the window!
• Family is where the heart is.
• Family is the heartland of your heart.
• A shared trouble is half joy.
• Don’t put a finger between a husband and wife.
• After the rain comes sunshine.
• No flies enter a closed mouth.
• When you finish the game, the king and pawn end up in the same box.
• 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.