Famous Proverbs
85 Proverbs about Pale / Page 8
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If you want to experience the pains of hell, spend winter in Messina and summer in Palermo.72.
If Messina had gardens Palermo would be a bunch of poor country houses.73.
When the moon is pale, it will rain; when it's red, it will be windy and when it's clear, it will be serene.74.
Messina is clever, Palermo is pompous; Messina is rich, Palermo is greedy.75.
Whoever goes to Palermo and doesn't see Monreale, goes there a jackass and returns a fool.76.
See Palermo and enjoy it, see Naples then die.77.
How much is prestige worth, not as much as Palermo, if you take away the saints.78.
Palermitani, two tarìs for the bread drippings and two grains for bread.79.
At Càccamu there are the boors at Termini the brunette slaves; and at Palermo long-stemmed roses, beautiful on the outside and rotten on the inside.80.
With everything Messina has the port, but for beautiful Palermo it is always just an orchard.