Milanese proverbs

Proverbs from all Milanese speaking parts of the world.

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Amor növ el va e'l ven; amor vèc el se mantèn.
- Idiomatic translation: Of soup and love the first is the best.
- Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 825. ISBN 0415096243.

Beat quel che impara ai spall dei alter.
- Translation: It is easiest to learn from another mans damage.
- English equivalent: Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
- Source for proverb: Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 619. ISBN 0415096243.

Con piö sa e vèc, con piö crès la soma.
- Idiomatic translation: Age and poverty are ill to bear.
- Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 177. ISBN 0415096243.

Gioeugh, per esse bel, nô l'ha de durá tropp.
- Idiomatic translation: Leave a jest when it pleases you best.
- "No pleasure is in itself evil, but the things which produce certain pleasures entail annoyances many times greater than the pleasures themselves."
- Epicurus variant translation: No pleasure is itself a bad thing, but the things that produce some kinds of pleasure, bring along with them unpleasantness that is much greater than the pleasure itself.
- Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 863. ISBN 0415096243.

No s'à minga de spü nei vacèl che s'à mangià.
- English equivalent: Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.
- Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 634. ISBN 0415096243.

Sbm tuti fio d'Adam.
- English equivalent: We are all descended from Adam.
- "There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed."
- Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759)
- Emanuel Strauss. Dictionary of European Proverbs. Routledge. pp. 111–. ISBN 978-1-134-86460-7.