Top 1200 Italian Proverb Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.

I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late '50s, early '60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism. I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late '50s, early '60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.

I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

I've played Latin, I've played Italian. And I've played the all-around regular girl. I think the thing about the way I look, is that I can look like many different things. People sometimes ask me if I'm Russian. I don't think I specifically look like a Puerto Rican or an Italian. Wouldn't you agree?

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.

Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can understand that the goal of Divine Comedy is beauty. You don't need also to understand Italian or to know Italian, because when Dante's writing, when we recite Dante out loud, it explodes a cosmos of illumination like to recite music, a symphony.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.

Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

Pedro Almodóvar asked me to watch italian films again as homework to look at the energy of all those women from the Italian neo-realist films. A lot of them had those characters that represented motherhood. For some reason, in the '50s in Italy, the mother figure was very important - and my character needed to have that energy.

I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

I'm increasingly convinced that there is an ongoing attempt of ethnic replacement of one people with another people. This is not emergency migration but organised migration that aims at replacing the Italian people with other people, Italian workers with other workers.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because I've been skating for so long. My waist is very small, but my legs are just huge. Most really nice suit makers are Italian, and usually they make suit pants for Italian men. I'm like, 'Those Italians must have pretty skinny legs.'

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

I'm in the saddle every day playing a screwball. And then somebody comes along and says, "How would you like to go to Italy and Spain and do an Italian/Spanish/German co-production with an Italian director who's only directed one movie?" It wasn't like I was going there to be with Federico Fellini. But something was there, and I thought, Well, I loved this story when it was told by Akira Kurosawa; maybe this is a good idea. That's an instinctive moment. A Fistful of Dollars was made.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

One of my favorite poses was when working with Steven Meisel. It was one of my first photo shoots with him, and we were trying to get the cover of Italian 'Vogue.' Then, I literally took my Balenciaga hat, pulled it down, and gave a rolling-eye, 'ugh' face, crossed legs on the floor. And lo and behold, that was the cover of Italian 'Vogue.'

I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek.

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

When I was 15, I decided to take up the sport seriously, so I went down to the Y.M.C.A. My first day there, this little Italian guy beat my brains out. I decided to quit. Then I realized I really wanted to be a fighter. I worked at it, went back, and that little Italian guy didn't beat me up no more.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."