Italian Proverbs

Italian Proverb Sayings

Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's garden.

Who troubles others has no rest himself.

Better slip with the foot than with the tongue.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Love your friend with his faults.

Not every truth is good to be told.

Absence is the enemy of love.

A good mother is worth a hundred teachers.

Beware of one who has nothing to lose.

The rich never have to seek out their relatives.

It is easy to give advice when all goes well.

Love is an excuse for its own faults.

Love kills time and time kills love.

Where there is nothing to gain, there is a lot to lose.

A good thing lost is valued.

He that runs fast will not run long.

The dog that means to bite don't bark.

Who suffers from love, feels no pain.

He who wants too much doesn't catch anything.

It's a bad plan that cannot be changed.

No good thing is failure and no evil thing success.

For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few, for the seller one is enough.

He that seeks to have many friends never has any. 

Men are as old as they feel, women as old as they look.

If someone betrays you once, it's his fault. If he betrays you twice, it's your fault.