Vive più il minacciato che l’impiccato.A threatened man lives longer than one that is hanged.
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Guardati da aceto di vin dolce.Beware of the vinegar of sweet wine.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’oro non compra tutto.Gold does not buy everything.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOmbra di signore, cappel di matto.The shadow of a lord is a cap for a fool.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi si marita in fretta, stenta adagio.Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFarò quel che potrò, e un poco manco per potervi durare.I will do what I can, and a little less, to be able to continue at it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi sta bene, non si muova.Let him who is well off stay where he is.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDomandar chi nacque prima, l’uovo o la gallina.Ask which was born first, the hen or the egg.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSuperbo è quel cavallo che non si vuol portar la biada.It’s a very proud horse that will not carry his oats.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFacilmente si trova un bastone per dar ad un cane.It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi non vede il fondo, non passi l’acqua.Don’t cross the water unless you see the bottom.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSanità senza quattrini è mezza malattia.Health without money is a half-malady.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa gatta vorrebbe mangiar pesci, ma non pescare.The cat loves fish, but is loth to wet her feet.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe donne si fanno rosse per non arrossire.Women rouge that they may not blush.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTutti i santi non fanno miracoli.All saints do not work miracles.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn coltello aguzza l’altro.One knife whets another.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUna pecora rognosa ne guasta un branco.One scabby sheep spoils a flock.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi più intende, più perdona.Who knows most, forgives most.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA veste logorata poca fede vien prestata.A ragged coat finds little credit.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMangiando viene l’appetito.Appetite comes in eating.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIn lungo viaggio, anche una paglia pesa.On a long journey even a straw is heavy.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLegami mani e piei, e gettami tra’ miei.Tie me hand and foot and throw me among my own people.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNessun buon avvocato piatisce mai.No good lawyer ever goes to law himself.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA chi piace il bere, parla sempre di vino.He who likes drinking is always talking of wine.
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