2053 Italian Proverbs / Page 49
961.
If you have a good cellar at home don't go drinking at the tavern.962.
If you let them put the calf on your shoulders, it will not be long before they clap on the cow.963.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.964.
If you stumble more than once over the same stump, you have no one to blame but yourself.965.
If you throw money away with your hands, you will seek it later with your feet.966.
If you want the daughter, you must kiss the mother.967.
If you want to buy love, love itself is the price you'll have to pay.968.
If you would be rich in a year, you may be hanged in six months.969.
If you would have your work ill done, pay beforehand.970.
If you would succeed, you must not be too good.971.
If young men had wit and old men strength everything might be well done.972.
If your head is wax, do not walk in the sun.973.
If youth but knew and age but could do.974.
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.975.
Ill in kine and worse in beeves.976.
Ill luck comes by pounds and goes away by ounces.977.
Ill news comes apace.978.
Ill news travels fast.979.
Ill weeds grow apace.980.
Illness tells us what we are.