1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 25
481.
If you're not a King don't make new laws; leave the world the way you find it.482.
If you've seeded before a heavy rain, one out of one hundred of your plants will be out of line, but if you wait and seed later, one out of one hundred will take.483.
If your neighbor's house is afire, fetch water to save your own.484.
Ill gotten gains don't last.485.
In a long race the good horse prevails.486.
In August the lambs are slaughtered.487.
In fair weather, in calm waters and in peaceful travel, even a coachman knows how to sail.488.
In foreign countries money goes by the way.489.
In hard times priests are in great demand.490.
In January you slaughter the lambs in February you work the skins.491.
In July, store the grain under the bed.492.
In May the horse gets fat, but if he doesn't get fat it's better to ditch him.493.
In old age your strength decreases and your appetite increases.494.
In Polizzi you'll find water, fog, kites, priests with children, commissions and delegates.495.
In the countryside eat cardoon, because at the castle you'll eat pigeon.496.
In the head of the pig there's something to take and something to leave; in the head of the rabbit there's nothing to leave and nothing to take.497.
In the olive grove, a wise man at the feet and a wild man at the head.498.
In time you'll want what you had scorned.499.
In war, hunting, and love you suffer a thousand pains for one pleasure.500.
In youth we need to save for what old age will bring.