More Italian Proverbs

Praise a maid in the morning, and the weather at night.... >>

Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight... >>

Beware of a man of one book... >>

Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.... >>

A cat pent up becomes a lion.... >>

Other Proverbs

A hundred years is not much, but never is a long while.... (French) >>

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perf... (French) >>

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it... (French) >>

He falls on his back and breaks his nose.... (French) >>

Appetite comes with eating.... (French) >>

At a dangerous passage, yield to precedence.

- Italian Proverb