Famous Proverbs
273 Proverbs about Count / Page 24
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Whoever seeds fava beans without using fertilizer, shouldn't count on having much to eat.232.
If Messina had gardens Palermo would be a bunch of poor country houses.233.
May waters drench peasants and lords or gentlemen, as many of them as it encounters.234.
Dress up a country bumpkin and he looks like a baron.235.
A new doctor is a plague on the country.236.
After shaking hands with a Greek, count your fingers.237.
Public before private and country before family.238.
Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.239.
The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed.240.
Any visitor to the country who drinks from the River Bengo will never want to leave.