Famous Proverbs
1234 Proverbs about Sicilian / Page 43
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Prepare the sickles in May, use the sickles in June, and in July carry the sickles to the tool shed.422.
The haughty broad bean flowers and climbs but produces little fruit.423.
When fava beans are flowering, apply water in torrents.424.
Whoever seeds fava beans without using fertilizer, shouldn't count on having much to eat.425.
April is the time for the fava, but if not here, then surely by the sea.426.
The cowherd who has fodder has bread, and if he doesn't have fodder then he ends up without oxen and without bread.427.
Preparing for the holiday is neither enlightening nor lasting.428.
There is nary a feast or a party without a monk or a priest.429.
Whoever brings his wife to every feast will not be lacking for headaches.430.
Before it's ready to eat the fig must be mature, dripping, with a bent neck and a thin skin.