1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 67
- 661. Plant vines as long as you live and seed as far as you see.
 - 662. Plow with the oxen and seed with the cows at their own pace.
- 663. Praise the sea but hang on to the land.
- 664. Prepare the fallow field well enough and you'll be free to go off and gather the hemp ties.
- 665. Prepare the sickles in May, use the sickles in June, and in July carry the sickles to the tool shed.
- 666. Preparing for the holiday is neither enlightening nor lasting.
- 667. Priests dressed in black bring bad tidings, in white they take you to the cemetery.
- 668. Privateer, sail while you have a good wind.
- 669. Prune cherry and fig trees mercilessly.
- 670. Prune the vines on the January moon if you want to fill the casks.
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