344 Corsican Proverbs / Page 32
- 311. When Christ disappears, light goes out.
 - 312. When cicadas sing, the swineherd weeps and works. When frogs sing, the swineherd yawns.
- 313. When force and reason are in conflict, force of reason prevails and being reasonable isn't enough.
- 314. When it rains and the sun comes out, foxes make love.
- 315. When peaches flower and ripen, days and nights have the same length.
- 316. When Pisa burned, it rained three nights and three days.
- 317. When something happens, praise it.
- 318. When storms roll in, dogs make beds.
- 319. When the cuckoo sings, the wild boar loses its old coat, and the hen lays an egg without a false nest. And the ram's horns round out - he looks like a general.
- 320. When the sky looks like a hot oven, if no rain today, rain tomorrow.
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