Va al mare, se ben vuoi pescare.Go to the sea if you would fish well.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione italiana · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Chi si loda, s’imbroda.He who praises himself befouls himself.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione italiana · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMorta la bestia, morto il veleno.The beast once dead, the venom is dead.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione italiana · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBuon principio è la metà dell’opra.Well begun is half done.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione italiana · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBenchè la bugia sia veloce, la verità l’arriva.Though a lie be swift, truth overtakes it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione italiana · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesI piccioli ladri s’impiccano per la gola, i grossi per la borsa.Little thieves are hanged by the neck, great ones by the purse.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione italiana · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesOgni pignattaro loda la sua pignatta, e più quella che tiene rotta.Every potter praises his pot, and most of all the one that is cracked.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione italiana · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesChi non ha, non è.Who has not is not.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione italiana · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources