1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 35
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Render the service paid for.682.
Repentance washes away sin.683.
Rice, it goes down but does nothing for me.684.
Ricotta and honey, eat them often.685.
Ride on the back of a mare, but on the shoulders of horses.686.
Ring the bells for whoever eats snails and drinks water, because he's dead.687.
Roof tiles are positioned to face downwards so that husbands and wives can be left alone.688.
Safeguard the flock that is grazing on the mountain.689.
Saints sleep three hours, merchants sleep five, ordinary people seven and the lazy sleep nine.690.
Salt comes from the sea and every bad thing comes from the woman.691.
Sardines in January and vopa in March.692.
Sausage from Mazzarino, clia from Caltagirone, and pasta from Vizzini.693.
Scarcity sets the price.694.
Sea urchins, limpets, and crabs you spend a lot and eat nothing.695.
See Palermo and enjoy it, see Naples then die.696.
Seed after a bad year.697.
Seed ground that has been fallow, not ground that has just yielded fruitfully.698.
Seed well and harvest better.699.
Seek goodness and expect evil.700.
Sell high and give a fair measure.