344 Corsican Proverbs / Page 3
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April: shuffle the pigsty.42.
As long as there is life, there is hope.43.
As there is Easter, so there are meager times.44.
At birth your fate is written.45.
At Pentecost, he who does not celebrate lives to regret it.46.
At the beginning of January, take the bull to fields of heather.47.
At the end of many disasters, there's always an Italian.48.
Beautiful May mornings and beautiful January evenings.49.
Beautiful things are never as beautiful as those that are pleasing.50.
Better the head of a village than the tail of a town.51.
Better to have little than nothing.52.
Better to sit next to someone taking a shit rather than someone carving stone.53.
Better to take an old husband than none.54.
Black ewe and white ewe: they who die, die, and those who live, live.55.
Blood is thicker than water.56.
Bread and bird: we don't discuss house business.57.
By firelight, an old rag looks like sturdy hemp fabric.58.
By the owner, the dog is respected.59.
Candlemas, Candlemas, whether windy or rainy, winter has ended. And if the weather is good, winter will last another thirty days.60.
Cards play and gamblers brag.