2053 Italian Proverbs / Page 148
- 1471. The best way to get praise is to die.
 - 1472. The big fish eat the little.
- 1473. The biter is sometimes bit.
- 1474. The braying of an ass does not reach heaven.
- 1475. The bucket goes so often to the well that it leaves its handle there.
- 1476. The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.
- 1477. The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.
- 1478. The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one.
- 1479. The cask can give no other wine that that it contains.
- 1480. The cat loves fish, but is loth to wet her feet.
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