2053 Italian Proverbs / Page 88
1741. Threats are arms for the threatened.
1742. Three are powerful: the Pope, the king, and the man who has nothing.
1743. Three brothers, three castles.
1744. Three know it, all know it.
1745. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
1746. Three things drive a man out of doors: smoke, dropping water, and a shrew.
1747. Three women and a goose make a market.
1748. Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail.
1749. Tie me hand and foot and throw me among my own people.
1750. Tied to the sowre apple-tree.
1751. Time and patience change the mulberry leaf to satin.
1752. Time is an inaudible file.
1753. To a crazy ship every wind is contrary.
1754. To a quick question, give a slow answer.
1755. To a weaving that has begun, God sends threads.
1756. To a young heart everything is sport.
1757. To be lucky you need a little wit.
1758. To become rich in this world, it needs only to turn one's back on God.
1759. To censure princes is perilous, and to praise them is lying.
1760. To err is human, to persist in it, beastly.