1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 49
- 481. If you're not a King don't make new laws; leave the world the way you find it.
 - 482. If you've seeded before a heavy rain, one out of one hundred of your plants will be out of line, but if you wait and seed later, one out of one hundred will take.
- 483. If your neighbor's house is afire, fetch water to save your own.
- 484. Ill gotten gains don't last.
- 485. In a long race the good horse prevails.
- 486. In August the lambs are slaughtered.
- 487. In fair weather, in calm waters and in peaceful travel, even a coachman knows how to sail.
- 488. In foreign countries money goes by the way.
- 489. In hard times priests are in great demand.
- 490. In January you slaughter the lambs in February you work the skins.
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