2053 Italian Proverbs / Page 47
921.
Hunger is the best sauce.922.
Hunger makes hard beans sweet.923.
Hunger transmutes beans into almonds.924.
I being satisfied, the world is satisfied.925.
I may have lost the ring, but I still have the fingers.926.
I might have lost my ring, but I still have my fingers.927.
I protect myself from my enemies; may God protect me from my friends.928.
I saw you at Lucca, I knew you at Pisa.929.
I speak to you, daughter; hear it daughter-in-law.930.
I too can lead the geese to water when it rains.931.
I will do what I can, and a little less, to be able to continue at it.932.
If a fox is preaching, then beware of your geese.933.
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.934.
If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean.935.
If I have lost the ring I still have the fingers.936.
If I sleep, I sleep for myself; if I work, I know not for whom.937.
If I went to sea I should find it dry.938.
If it rained macaroni, what a fine time for gluttons.939.
If it rained maccaroni, what a fine time for gluttons.940.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck.