Famous Proverbs
1234 Proverbs about Sicilian / Page 6
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Collect promptly, pay slowly; who knows, in case of an accident, you'll pay nothing.52.
Better a lean accord than a hefty sentence.53.
Who starts many things, finishes nothing.54.
If you want to live to be old you need to start early.55.
If you want bread go to Agrigento, if you want pasta go to Licata, ask for money from the people in Aci, oil and sumac from the Terminesi.56.
When birds aren't making a mess it's a sign that it's been a bad year.57.
Water does harm but wine makes you sing.58.
Water does harm but wine comforts.59.
Timely rain cheers my soul; water and sun during seeding, inspires hope; the rains of April and May are late at night; then the good mornings, will be the wealth of the houses.60.
Water and sun make work, water and wind make grain.