Chi più sa, meno parla.Who knows most says least.
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Anche delle volpi si pigliano.Even foxes are caught.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuel che pare burla, ben sovente è vero.Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa madre pietosa fa la figliuola tignosa.A tender-hearted mother makes a scabby daughter.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDel vero s’adira l’uomo.It is truth that makes a man angry.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon ci è la peggior burla che la vera.There is no worse joke than a true one.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDel cuoio d’altri si fan larghe stringhe.Broad thongs may be cut from other men’s leather.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesE padron del mondo chi lo disprezza, schiavo chi lo apprezza.He is the world’s master who despises it, its slave who prizes it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl cane scottato dall’acqua calda, ha paura della fredda.The scalded dog fears cold water.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi sa poco, presto lo dice.He who knows but little quickly tells it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAd ogni santo la sua torcia.To every saint his torch.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFortuna, e dormi.Fortune, and go to sleep.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon si vorria esser solo in Paradiso.One would not be alone in Paradise.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi è ritto può cadere.He that stands may fall.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSpegner il fuoco con la stoppa.To put out the fire with tow.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOgni cosa si sopporta eccetto il buon tempo.Everything may be borne except good fortune.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa necessità torna in volontà.Necessity becomes will.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon può uscir del sacco se non quel che ci è.Nothing can come out of a sack but what is in it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesGli uomini hanno gli anni ch’e’ sentono, e le donne quelli che mostrano.Men are as old as they feel, and women as they look.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesO bene o male, tutti dobbiamo vivere.Good or bad we must all live.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi mangia peri col suo signore, non sceglie i migliori.He who eats pears with his master should not choose the best.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesGran chiesa e poca divozione.A great church and little devotion.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA chi ha testa, non manca cappello.He who has a head won’t want for a hat.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCorta coda non para mosche.A short tail won’t keep off flies.
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