1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 36
- 351. From September to August drink the old wine and leave the must to age.
 - 352. From the frying pan into the fire.
- 353. From the woods a beautiful pheasant, from the sea a beautiful moray eel, from the river a den eel, from the cage a beautiful chicken.
- 354. From the work you know the master.
- 355. From twenty to thirty, neither pulling nor pushing, from thirty on up a woman is of no further use.
- 356. Get a Christian doctor and a pagan lawyer.
- 357. Get your ox from a young cow and your horse from an old mare.
- 358. Give an apple to the little ones, a book to the old.
- 359. Give monks a wide berth, and as for priests just attend Mass.
- 360. Giving promptly is like giving twice.
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