1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 8
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Bed rest cures a hurt leg and a sling heals a hurting arm.142.
Before an angry face keep your mouth shut.143.
Before it's ready to eat the fig must be mature, dripping, with a bent neck and a thin skin.144.
Being in love with a married woman is living on borrowed time.145.
Being overweight is being halfway sick.146.
Believe half of what you hear about wealth and holiness.147.
Believe half what's recounted, the less you believe, the better you'll do.148.
Believe only a little of what you see and nothing that you hear.149.
Better a lean accord than a hefty sentence.150.
Better a poor husband than a lover who's a baron.151.
Better a woman who is dark-skinned and gracious, than one who is light-skinned and insipid.152.
Better an egg today than the chicken tomorrow.153.
Better not fight with the condemned.154.
Better the bad one from a good breed than the better one from a bad breed.155.
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.156.
Better to be born a limpet in the sea, than a load bearing donkey.157.
Better to be shot with a crossbow than rejected by a window slammed shut.158.
Better to be wrongfully excommunicated than to make a death bed confession.159.
Better to die and have something to leave than to live wanting.160.
Better to die in the clutches of the lion than under the tail of a jackass.