1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 10
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By Saint Candelora day if it's not snowing or raining, winter is over.182.
By the feast of Saint Candelora winter is over.183.
Bypass monks with a big stride; have nothing to do with priests, except at Mass.184.
Capacious as the sleeve of a monk and patient as the priest with his arms across his chest.185.
Castedduvitranu, Castelvetrano, rich in eggplants and good wine.186.
Cavaliers, priests, and dangerous places, speak nicely about them but keep your distance.187.
Cheese, pears and bread, is not the food of peasants.188.
Chestnut horses and surly men can't even cover expenses.189.
Chiaramonte, a mountain of gold, every woman is a treasure.190.
Chilblain passes with the flowers of May.191.
Children and the deaf are the punishment of God.192.
Choose an old doctor and a new pharmacist.193.
Choose bread with eyes, cheese without eyes and wine that makes your eyes pop.194.
Choose her for her beauty and even choose her without a dowry because from her beauty you'll get pleasure.195.
Choose old wine and new oil.196.
Clear pacts, long friendship.197.
Collect promptly, pay slowly; who knows, in case of an accident, you'll pay nothing.198.
Come out of it standing on all four.199.
Completing a transaction with money borrowed at usury is a bad purchase.200.
Concern is the beginning of wealth.