Famous Proverbs
8 Proverbs about Salad
1.
Drink upon salad costs the doctor a ducat; drink upon eggs costs him two.2.
Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.3.
He who plants the lettuce doesn't always eat the salad.4.
Let the salad-maker be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a statesman for salt, and a madman for tossing.5.
A thistle is a fat salad for an ass's mouth.6.
The person who plants the lettuce does not always eat the salad.7.
Nunziata, fix the salad, a little vinegar, lots of oil, four reckless mouthfuls, and then some drinks from the jug.8.
You need four men to make a good salad: a crazy man to mix it, a scholar for the salt, a miser for a touch of vinegar, and a squanderer for the oil.1