1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 59
1161. With a clear Sirocco and a dark North Wind, go to sea without concern.
1162. With a good farm, garden and vineyard, all your problems will be cured.
1163. With death you don't lose hope: damnation is called separation.
1164. With everything Messina has the port, but for beautiful Palermo it is always just an orchard.
1165. With friends make agreements, with relatives make contracts.
1166. With selling and buying there are neither friends nor cronies.
1167. With the hammer's blows the defects become known.
1168. With two bits worth of a donkey you can earn more than with a mule.
1169. Without jealousy, love would wither.
1170. Wives from the mountains and husbands from the cities.
1171. Woe unto the patient whose doctors argue.
1172. Women always tend to the bad.
1173. Women and cloth should not be bought in the evening.
1174. Women can't keep secrets.
1175. Women, fire, and the sea are perilous for man.
1176. Wooden casks make good wine.
1177. Words are for reasoning.
1178. Wrongful acquisitions don't last long.
1179. Wrongful gains are quickly consumed.
1180. You can correct a mistake.