Bed is the poor man's opera

A sin concealed is half-pardoned

— Italian Proverb

A full stomach praises Lent.

— Italian Proverb

“ogni promesso e un debito" ("Every Promise is a debt")”

— Italian proverb

Of two cowards, the one who finds the other out first has the advantage

— Italian Proverb

Summer is the mother of the poor.

— Italian Proverb

Proverbs bear age, and he who would do well may view himself in them as in a looking glass.

— Italian Proverb

Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice.

— Italian Proverb

Hope is the last thing ever lost

— Italian Proverb

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box

— Italian Proverb

Speak of the devil and he appears

— Italian Proverb

Count your nights by stars, not shadows; count your life with smiles, not tears.

— Italian Proverb

A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three

— Italian Proverb

He saith little that loveth much

— Italian Proverb

He hauls at a long rope who expects another's death.

— Italian Proverb

One with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the person ready to die

— Italian Proverb