1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 60
1181.
You can tell an educated person by their talk and bells by their ringing.1182.
You can't drive donkeys without a stick, nor horses without spurs.1183.
You can't fight City Hall.1184.
You can't have meat without the bone.1185.
You can't kill your way into heaven.1186.
You can't live a long life and remain upright.1187.
You can't make a rattle with a single walnut in a sack.1188.
You can't punch your way into heaven.1189.
You can't shame the wicked.1190.
You can't sleep and be on guard.1191.
You don't burn incense at an old crucifix.1192.
You don't cast a net into a river that has no fish.1193.
You don't choose whom to love and not love.1194.
You don't light candles to old saints.1195.
You don't measure a man in hands.1196.
You don't spin, you don't weave, or wind, so where did you get this pile of money?1197.
You drive a donkey with a stick, an ox and a mule with a prod, and the horse with a whip and spurs.1198.
You find snails on the mountain slope with the dew from the ravines.1199.
You fool an old woman once; the next time she shuts the door on you.1200.
You get more from a few good animals than from the many that are poorly grazed.