More Italian Proverbs

A favour to come is better than a hundred received.... >>

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

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.... >>

At a dangerous passage, yield to precedence.... >>

Better give a penny then lend twenty.... >>

Other Proverbs

Every one takes his flogging in his own way.... (French) >>

For the last-comer the bones.... (French) >>

A fool's head never whitens.... (French) >>

Gratitude is the heart's memory.... (French) >>

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.... (French) >>

He who wants a great deal must not ask for little.

- Italian Proverb