Tuscan proverbs
Proverbs from all Tuscan speaking parts of the world.
L
- La natura può più dell'arte.
- English equivalent: Nature is beyond all teaching.
- "There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind."
- Confucius, Analects (~ 300 BC), Book XVII, Chapter VIII.
- Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 764. ISBN 0415096243.
I
- 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 (1907). The Motto Book.
- Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 710. ISBN 0415096243.
N
- 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.