1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 48
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Trapani, red coral, Monte San Giuliano, beautiful children.942.
Tribulations and blessings, if you have them, keep them.943.
True love burns within the heart, better than flax and straw.944.
True wisdom is born with white hair.945.
Uncollected olives, left at random fill neither the saddle bag nor the little sack.946.
Unexpected good fortune, gets more appreciation.947.
Unfortunate is the property that the owner doesn't oversee.948.
Unspoken words cannot be noted.949.
Use fertilizer to change the course of nature.950.
Use the chicken for broth and the pullet for its meat.951.
Use your time as best you can, keeping the hoe and oxen ready.952.
Use your time in May to stock up for winter.953.
Vegetable garden and mill, don't tell your neighbor how much they yield.954.
Wait for time and lose time.955.
Walk with your slippers until you can find your shoes.956.
Walls don't have ears but they hear, they don't have mouths but they speak.957.
Watch out for the unexpected mushroom.958.
Water and sun make work, water and wind make grain.959.
Water does harm but wine comforts.960.
Water does harm but wine makes you sing.