11 Sicilian Proverbs about Olive
All Sicilian Proverbs | Proverbs about Olive1. Uncollected olives, left at random fill neither the saddle bag nor the little sack.
2. If the olive trees blossom in April, you'll have enough to collect them with barrels; if they bud in May, you'll have enough to fill a small measure; but if as late as June, you'll only be collecting handfuls.
3. The olive grove of your grandfather, the cherry trees of your father, and your grape vines.
4. Olives harvested with a heavy staff will produce poor tasting oil.
5. Petrafendola from Modica, Bread from Ragusa, and olives from Chiaramonte.
6. You'll never be sated with bread and olives.
7. A year of snow, bodes a good year for olives.
8. In the olive grove, a wise man at the feet and a wild man at the head.
9. As you pay the price with the fertilizer, the hoe and pruning determines the harvest of the olives.
10. When the olive tree blooms during April, olives are harvested with barrels, when it blossoms in June, they are harvested in handfuls.
11. September brings acorn and olives.
11 Proverbs
Quotes related to Olive by Power Quotations