More Italian Proverbs

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected... >>

High birth is a poor dish at table.... >>

A runaway monk never praises his monastery.... >>

Have an open face but conceal your thoughts.... >>

He would share even his share of the sun.... >>

Other Proverbs

If you eat it up at supper, you cannot have it for breakfast... (Spanish) >>

By dint of going wrong all will come right.... (French) >>

Nothing dries sooner than tears.... (Latin) >>

When you throw dirt, you lose ground... (Chinese) >>

Confessed faults are half mended... (Yugoslav) >>

Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight.

- Italian Proverb