1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 30
581.
Marriage must occur early or it will never happen.582.
Marriage would be beautiful if it weren't for cradle rocking.583.
Marriages and bishoprics are arranged in heaven.584.
Married people and mules, leave them alone.585.
Marry your children with their peers so you won't regret it someday.586.
May waters drench peasants and lords or gentlemen, as many of them as it encounters.587.
Meager possessions are highly valued.588.
Meat makes meat, bread makes a paunch, and wine makes you dance.589.
Men are not weighed by hundredweight, but by the ounce, like gold.590.
Men in glass houses should not throw stones.591.
Messina is clever, Palermo is pompous; Messina is rich, Palermo is greedy.592.
Milk and wine together make an excellent poison.593.
Monks have both a capacious sleeve and a tight sleeve.594.
Monreale, a city without comfort, either it rains, or the wind blows, or bells ring for the dead.595.
More die because they live to eat, than die by the sword.596.
Morning makes the day.597.
Most often a good boss makes a good steward.598.
Mountains will never join other mountains but men will confront other men.599.
Necessity is the mother of invention.600.
Neither believed nor understood is the poor who's offended.