1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 61
1201.
You get work from the young and advice from the old.1202.
You learn by teaching.1203.
You may crush, bleed, stamp on and scratch me, but I won't play with fire.1204.
You need firm care to cure deep melancholy.1205.
You need four men to make a good salad: a crazy man to mix it, a scholar for the salt, a miser for a touch of vinegar, and a squanderer for the oil.1206.
You need land to seed, to live in luxury.1207.
You need plant only one cherry and one plum tree.1208.
You need to first experience adversity, before you can handle high praise.1209.
You need to have patience in storms: you don't eat honey without flies.1210.
You never get enough of kissing a sweetheart or eating snails.1211.
You never value something as much as when it's gone.1212.
You only fool yourself when you seed badly.1213.
You shout in vain when you're calling the deaf.1214.
You want a grumpy dog and a lively horse.1215.
You will not be loved if you only think of yourself.1216.
You won't know who your friends are until you need them.1217.
You'll become a lot better if you think about your death.1218.
You'll begin to be rich when you learn to scorn riches.1219.
You'll know the good soldier in battle.1220.
You'll never be sated with bread and olives.