Corsican Proverbs

Life is just as long as the time it takes for someone to pass by a window. Corsican Proverbs Image

Life is just as long as the time it takes for someone to pass by a window.

Pigs are kissing: a year of acorns. Corsican Proverbs Image

Pigs are kissing: a year of acorns.

Share riches and poverty returns. Corsican Proverbs Image

Share riches and poverty returns.

You can’t take a step that’s longer than your legs. Corsican Proverbs Image

You can’t take a step that’s longer than your legs.

You can’t say “prruci” without lips. Corsican Proverbs Image

You can’t say “prruci” without lips.

You can’t put both feet in one shoe. Corsican Proverbs Image

You can’t put both feet in one shoe.

No one is born and no one dies before their time. Corsican Proverbs Image

No one is born and no one dies before their time.

That which is written in heaven, comes to pass on earth. Corsican Proverbs Image

That which is written in heaven, comes to pass on earth.

The closer a relation, the more it hits home. Corsican Proverbs Image

The closer a relation, the more it hits home.

Once grape gathering has finished, you have to hang up the basket. Corsican Proverbs Image

Once grape gathering has finished, you have to hang up the basket.

Once a horse is old, ticks and flies flock to it. Corsican Proverbs Image

Once a horse is old, ticks and flies flock to it.

On april 8th, the cuckoo’s call must be heard. Corsican Proverbs Image

On april 8th, the cuckoo’s call must be heard.

Superfine green beans, tomatoes and chasselas grapes. Corsican Proverbs Image

Superfine green beans, tomatoes and chasselas grapes.

Superficiality goes from the door to the balcony. Corsican Proverbs Image

Superficiality goes from the door to the balcony.

Set aside emergencies and help a woman giving birth. Corsican Proverbs Image

Set aside emergencies and help a woman giving birth.

Linden, I want you. Corsican Proverbs Image

Linden, I want you.

Like grape, like bud. Like father, like son. Corsican Proverbs Image

Like grape, like bud. Like father, like son.

Work in micalassu: eating, drinking and strolling. Corsican Proverbs Image

Work in micalassu: eating, drinking and strolling.

Words have no bones, but can break bones. Corsican Proverbs Image

Words have no bones, but can break bones.

Women, problems. Corsican Proverbs Image

Women, problems.

Women’s tears are fountains of malice. Corsican Proverbs Image

Women’s tears are fountains of malice.

Don’t start braiding your rope on a monday or a friday. Corsican Proverbs Image

Don’t start braiding your rope on a monday or a friday.

Don’t scoff at my mourning – mine is old and yours is recent. Corsican Proverbs Image

Don’t scoff at my mourning – mine is old and yours is recent.

The festival of mpaza comes to pass. Corsican Proverbs Image

The festival of mpaza comes to pass.

The dead with the dead, and the living with the living. Corsican Proverbs Image

The dead with the dead, and the living with the living.

The fox can lose his fur but not his cunning. Corsican Proverbs Image

The fox can lose his fur but not his cunning.

Hunger drives the wolf from its den. Corsican Proverbs Image

Hunger drives the wolf from its den.

Beautiful may mornings and beautiful january evenings. Corsican Proverbs Image

Beautiful may mornings and beautiful january evenings.

Beautiful things are never as beautiful as those that are pleasing. Corsican Proverbs Image

Beautiful things are never as beautiful as those that are pleasing.

Humid weather, smelly air. Corsican Proverbs Image

Humid weather, smelly air.

He who does not know how to plant will plant in november. Corsican Proverbs Image

He who does not know how to plant will plant in november.

He who does not grow old is deprived of life. Corsican Proverbs Image

He who does not grow old is deprived of life.

He who changes, suffers. Corsican Proverbs Image

He who changes, suffers.

When peaches flower and ripen, days and nights have the same length. Corsican Proverbs Image

When peaches flower and ripen, days and nights have the same length.

When pisa burned, it rained three nights and three days. Corsican Proverbs Image

When pisa burned, it rained three nights and three days.

When storms roll in, dogs make beds. Corsican Proverbs Image

When storms roll in, dogs make beds.

When the cuckoo sings, the wild boar loses its old coat Corsican Proverbs Image

When the cuckoo sings, the wild boar loses its old coat

When the sky looks like a hot oven, if no rain today, rain tomorrow. Corsican Proverbs Image

When the sky looks like a hot oven, if no rain today, rain tomorrow.

When the sun is on azilonu, it’s meal time. Corsican Proverbs Image

When the sun is on azilonu, it’s meal time.

When the sun sets, lazy people prepare. Corsican Proverbs Image

When the sun sets, lazy people prepare.

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