1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 34
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Plant vines as long as you live and seed as far as you see.662.
Plow with the oxen and seed with the cows at their own pace.663.
Praise the sea but hang on to the land.664.
Prepare the fallow field well enough and you'll be free to go off and gather the hemp ties.665.
Prepare the sickles in May, use the sickles in June, and in July carry the sickles to the tool shed.666.
Preparing for the holiday is neither enlightening nor lasting.667.
Priests dressed in black bring bad tidings, in white they take you to the cemetery.668.
Privateer, sail while you have a good wind.669.
Prune cherry and fig trees mercilessly.670.
Prune the vines on the January moon if you want to fill the casks.671.
Put a heavy load on an old donkey.672.
Put up with your present condition to avoid a bad future.673.
Putting hope in a monk, is like trying to catch the wind in a net.674.
Quickly, quickly because the wax is melting.675.
Rain and the hoe make onions.676.
Raising children engenders love.677.
Reins and a whip make a good horse.678.
Religion will perish because of excessive comforts.679.
Remain continuously in the vegetable and flower garden.680.
Remain honorable and don't worry if you're poor.