344 Corsican Proverbs / Page 12
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Put it in the ground and trust in God.222.
Rainy March, beehives full of worms, and rams with colds.223.
Rats plotting: problems with flour.224.
Reason is only verbal.225.
Receive and rejoice, Antonio, it's your celebration; always receive and never restrain.226.
Red sea: good morning weather. Red mountains: water and wind.227.
Roba di Scolca, roba di forca. Les gens de Scolca sont bons pour la potence.228.
Ropes that are too long become snakes.229.
Santa Maria, Sichè: if you're not a thief you won't be happy there.230.
Seamen learn to get to know each other during a storm.231.
Seeing a man is seeing his character.232.
Set aside emergencies and help a woman giving birth.233.
Share riches and poverty returns.234.
Some die; others bloom.235.
Some work, others merely daydream.236.
Superficiality goes from the door to the balcony.237.
Superfine green beans, tomatoes and Chasselas grapes.238.
That which is written in Heaven, comes to pass on Earth.239.
The bad fortune of Zoza: in winter it sees not the sun and in summer it sees not the moon.240.
The barrel can only yield the wine that's in it.