Famous Proverbs
13 Proverbs about Palermo
1.
If you want to experience the pains of hell, spend winter in Messina and summer in Palermo.2.
If Messina had gardens Palermo would be a bunch of poor country houses.3.
Messina is clever, Palermo is pompous; Messina is rich, Palermo is greedy.4.
Whoever goes to Palermo and doesn't see Monreale, goes there a jackass and returns a fool.5.
See Palermo and enjoy it, see Naples then die.6.
How much is prestige worth, not as much as Palermo, if you take away the saints.7.
At Cąccamu there are the boors at Termini the brunette slaves; and at Palermo long-stemmed roses, beautiful on the outside and rotten on the inside.8.
With everything Messina has the port, but for beautiful Palermo it is always just an orchard.9.
Palermo is a tolerant man, whoever goes, goes and whoever comes, comes.10.
Palermo for its illustrious writers and Messina for its harbor.