1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 44
861.
The scales tip where the weight is.862.
The September moon governs seven moons.863.
The service is rendered, the goods awaited.864.
The short donkey doesn't carry on his back.865.
The Sicilian horse: short and dwarf.866.
The sick bed makes the doctor.867.
The soul goes to God, the body to the earth, and belongings to those to whom they should go.868.
The suffering patient knows more than the expert doctor.869.
The summer that yields lots of pumpkins and horse radish doesn't fill the larder.870.
The testimony of one eyewitness is worth more than the hearsay of a hundred.871.
The thief who can't steal anymore has become a Christian.872.
The time for pressing is while the iron is hot.873.
The tongue is the mirror of the stomach.874.
The tree in the middle of the road is shaken by everyone.875.
The tree that's cut down is half taken.876.
The turtle is not afraid of hail stones.877.
The unmarried don't know about labor pains.878.
The unscrupulous steal everything.879.
The vine always says to his uncle Frank: Make me poor and I'll make you rich.880.
The vineyard along the coast costs dearly.