More Italian Proverbs
- Men are as old as they feel, but women are as old as they look.
- Fine words don’t feed cats.
- Better alone than in bad company.
- Where there’s life, there’s hope.
- The poor man is lacking many things, the greedy man all.
- Experience is more important than theory.
- A good life makes an easy death.
- One beautiful day doesn’t make a summer.
- Love conquers all.
- Speak the truth and shame the devil.
- To make an elephant out of a fly.
- A good wife makes a good husband.
- 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.