344 Corsican Proverbs / Page 16
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What a sad basket, leaving and returning empty.302.
What a sad bench it is that has never been sat upon by a grey beard.303.
What can a cat do if its master is crazy.304.
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.305.
What goes around comes around.306.
What keeps its leaves, to the waning moon. What loses its leaves, to the new moon.307.
What was done at night, is laughed about during the day.308.
When a blade has dulled, sharpen another.309.
When a dog ages, the fox pees on it.310.
When a pig has eaten its full, it pushes over its trough.311.
When Christ disappears, light goes out.312.
When cicadas sing, the swineherd weeps and works. When frogs sing, the swineherd yawns.313.
When force and reason are in conflict, force of reason prevails and being reasonable isn't enough.314.
When it rains and the sun comes out, foxes make love.315.
When peaches flower and ripen, days and nights have the same length.316.
When Pisa burned, it rained three nights and three days.317.
When something happens, praise it.318.
When storms roll in, dogs make beds.319.
When the cuckoo sings, the wild boar loses its old coat, and the hen lays an egg without a false nest. And the ram's horns round out - he looks like a general.320.
When the sky looks like a hot oven, if no rain today, rain tomorrow.