2053 Italian Proverbs / Page 96
1901. Where there is great love there is great pain.
1902. Where there is least heart there is most tongue.
1903. Where there is nothing to gain, there is a lot to lose.
1904. Where there's a will there's a way.
1905. Where there's life, there's hope.
1906. While the grass grows, the steed starves.
1907. While there's life there's hope.
1908. While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.
1909. Who accepts, sells himself.
1910. Who acts not, fails not.
1911. Who builds on the mob builds on sand.
1912. Who builds upon the people, builds upon sand.
1913. Who buys hath need of eyes.
1914. Who buys land buys war.
1915. Who can do, don't want to; Who wants to, can't do; Who knows how to do, won't do it; Who does it, doesn't know how to; and, so, badly goes the world.
1916. Who cannot beat the horse let him beat the saddle.
1917. Who changes country changes luck.
1918. Who changes his condition changes fortune.
1919. Who comes seldom, is welcome.
1920. Who dangles after the great is the last at table and the first to be cuffed.