Tuscan proverbs
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Proverbs from all Tuscan speaking parts of the world.
Contents
L[edit]
- La natura può più dell'arte.
- Idiomatic translation: Nature is beyond all teaching.
- Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 764. ISBN 0415096243.
I[edit]
- Il medico pietoso fa la piaga puzzolente.
- English equivalent: Mild physician – putrid wounds.
- "Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow."
- Elbert Hubbard, The Motto Book (1907).
- Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 710. ISBN 0415096243.
N[edit]
- Ne' fiori cova la serpe.
- Idiomatic translation: Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep.
- Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 1070. ISBN 0415096243.
