1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 15
- 141. Bed rest cures a hurt leg and a sling heals a hurting arm.
 - 142. Before an angry face keep your mouth shut.
- 143. Before it's ready to eat the fig must be mature, dripping, with a bent neck and a thin skin.
- 144. Being in love with a married woman is living on borrowed time.
- 145. Being overweight is being halfway sick.
- 146. Believe half of what you hear about wealth and holiness.
- 147. Believe half what's recounted, the less you believe, the better you'll do.
- 148. Believe only a little of what you see and nothing that you hear.
- 149. Better a lean accord than a hefty sentence.
- 150. Better a poor husband than a lover who's a baron.
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