Una campana fa a un comune.One bell serves a parish.
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Con poco cervello si governa il mondo.The world is governed with little brains.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBaldezza di signor, cappel da matto.Faith in a lord, a cap for the fool.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSi trovano più ladri che forche.There are more thieves than gibbets.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSi vive bene all’ombra del campanile.It is good living under the shadow of the belfry.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNatale non viene che una volta l’anno.Christmas comes but once a year.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIn tempo di guerra ogni cavallo ha soldo.In war time there is pay for every horse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNella veste più fina fa maggior danno la tarmina.The moth does most mischief to the finest garment.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesApri bocca, e fa ch’io ti conosca.Open thy mouth that I may know thee.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBel colpo non ammazzò mai uccello.A fine shot never killed a bird.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA chi non si lascia consigliare, non si può aiutare.There is no helping him who will not be advised.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi aspettar puole, ha ciò che vuole.He who can wait obtains what he wishes.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi mal pensa, mal abbia.Evil be to him who evil thinks.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChe sarà, sarà.What will be, will be.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon ricordar il capestro in casa dell’impiccato.Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe piccole spese son quelle che vuotano la borsa.It is the petty expenses that empty the purse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIn picciol tempo passa ogni gran pioggia.A heavy shower is soon over.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSempre ha torto il più debole.The weakest goes to the wall.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi ama, crede.Who loves, believes.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi fabbrica vicino alla strada, ha molti sindicatori.He who builds by the roadside has many surveyors.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon tutti dormono quelli che hanno serrati gli occhi.Not all are asleep who have their eyes shut.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDove l’oro parla, ogni lingua tace.When gold speaks every tongue is silent.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA cattiva vacca Dio dà corte corna.God gives a curst cow short horns.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesE padrone della vita altrui chi la sua sprezza.He is master of another man’s life who is indifferent to his own.
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