Italian Proverb
53 quotations
The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one.
If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.
Misfortune does not always result in harm.
Moderate profits fill the purse.
Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.
Money begets money.
Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
Voice of one, voice of none.
The best way to get praise is to die.
When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.
The rich never have to seek out their relatives.
The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.
After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved.
He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.
At a round table there is no dispute about place.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Bed is the poor man's opera.
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
Beware of one who has nothing to lose.
A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.
Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.
Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad.