Chi giura, è bugiardo.He who swears is a liar.
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Non è uomo chi non sa dir di nò.He is not a man who cannot say no.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesContro amore non è consiglio.Counsel is nothing against love.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSpesso i doni sono danni.Gifts are often losses.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMolti voglion l’albero che fingon di rifiutar il frutto.Many desire the tree who pretend to refuse the fruit.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMatta è quella pecora che si confessa al lupo.’Tis a silly sheep that confesses to the wolf.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesI frutti proibiti sono i più dolci.Forbidden fruit is the sweetest.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi sa la strada, può andar di trotto.He who knows the road can ride full trot.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEgli sa dove il diavolo tiene la coda.He knows where the devil carries his tail.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’elefante non sente il morso della pulce.The elephant does not feel a flea-bite.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAmor e signoria non voglion compagnia.Love and lordship like not fellowship.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUomo amante, uomo zelante.A loving man, a jealous man.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa fame caccia il lupo del bosco.Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi è dell’arte ne può ragionare.He who is of the craft can discourse about it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDolor di capo non toglie la corona reale.A crown is no cure for the headache.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA mal passo l’onore.At a dangerous passage yield precedence.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAmato non sarai, se à te solo penserai.You will not be loved if you think of yourself alone.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa buona roba non fu mai cara.Good ware was never dear.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesE picciola la punta della spina, ma chi sente il dolore non se ne dimentica.The point of the thorn is small, but he who has felt it does not forget it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesGranata nuova, tre dì buona.A new broom is good for three days.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUomo morto non fa guerra.A dead man does not make war.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDuro a vecchia licenza nuova legge.Hard is a new law imposed on old licence.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi va al mulino, s’infarina.He who goes to the mill gets befloured.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi piglia l’anguilla per la coda, e la donna per la parola, può dir che non tiene niente.Who takes an eel by the tail and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing.
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