2053 Italian Proverbs / Page 57
- 561. Friendships are cheap when they can be brought by doffing the hat.
 - 562. Frightened at bugbears.
- 563. From a bad paymaster take straw--i.e. any trifle.
- 564. From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
- 565. From saying to doing is a long way.
- 566. From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.
- 567. From snow whether cooked or pounded you will get nothing but water.
- 568. From still water God keep me; from running water I will keep myself.
- 569. From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.
- 570. From those I trust God guard me, from those I mistrust I will guard myself.
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