1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 18
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For a taste treat, try tuna roe and thorny cardoons.342.
For sulphur, wheat, wine, and wool, come to the towns of Sicily.343.
For tender almonds go to Aragona, to see beautiful young girls go to Favara.344.
For the man a great sweat, for the woman a great physical pain.345.
For the very best, drink milk from the goat, ricotta from the sheep and cheese from the cow.346.
For women the highest state is the married state.347.
Force of arms is useless against death.348.
Forget your troubles at the dining table.349.
Freedom and health, who has them is rich and doesn't know it.350.
Freedom is a plateful of hard crusts.351.
From September to August drink the old wine and leave the must to age.352.
From the frying pan into the fire.353.
From the woods a beautiful pheasant, from the sea a beautiful moray eel, from the river a den eel, from the cage a beautiful chicken.354.
From the work you know the master.355.
From twenty to thirty, neither pulling nor pushing, from thirty on up a woman is of no further use.356.
Get a Christian doctor and a pagan lawyer.357.
Get your ox from a young cow and your horse from an old mare.358.
Give an apple to the little ones, a book to the old.359.
Give monks a wide berth, and as for priests just attend Mass.360.
Giving promptly is like giving twice.