Italian sayings, proverbs, adages, mottos, epigrams, and aphorisms
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La buona moglie fa il buon marito.
La gatta frettolosa fece i gattini ciechi.
La gente in case di vetro non dovrebbe gettare le pietre.
La lingua non ha osso ma rompe l'osso.
La moglie è la chiave di casa.
La pratica vale più della grammatica.
La prima è matrimonio, la seconda compania, la terza un'eresia.
L'abito non fa il monaco.
L'amore domina senza regole.
L'amore e cieco.
Le bugie hanno le gambe corte.
Le ore del mattino hanno l'oro in bocca.
L'occhio del padrone ingrassa il cavallo.
Lontano dagli occhi, lontano dal cuore.
L'uomo propone ma Dio dispone.
Introduction to Italian Proverbs
English translation: A good wife makes a good husband.
English translation: The hurried cat produced blind kittens.
Idiomatic meaning: Haste makes waste.
English translation: People in glass houses should not throw stones.
English translation: The tongue has no bone but it breaks bone.
English translation: A good wife is the key to a good home.
English translation: Experience is the best teacher.
English translation: The first woman you marry is your wife, the second a companion, the third is nonsense.
English translation: The habit does not make the monk.
Idiomatic meaning: Clothes don't make the man.
English translation: Love rules without rules.
English translation: Love is blind.
English translation: Lies have short legs.
English translation: The morning hours are the most precious of the day.
English translation: A business thrives under the eye of its owner.
English translation: Out of sight, out of mind.
English translation: Man proposes but God disposes.
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