Selection of Lombard proverbs, sayings and popular sayings most used in Lombardy, as testimony to the long tradition of its people.
Lombard idioms
- The doctor and confessor have to say everything.
- Girl from a tavern, a Maltese mare, a cow from a gardener, a miller's slut, leave them to their owners.
- Everyone has a mouth, few have a head.
- Define your debt positions.
- Then he's the brother of ever.
- If he did the innkeeper it would be a failure.
- A hundred friends are often few, but an enemy is always too much.
- He has always been in company at the tavern.
- Money made them of paper to make them fly and made them round to make them turn.
- Water hurts, in fact they drink it in the hospital.
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- The five cents are the beginning of the million.
- Eat drink and go full body and let it go.
- Mum is a wool blanket.
- One day bread, one year old wine and an eighteen year old woman.
- As much as you teach your son, you teach it to your son's son.
- Whether France comes or Spain comes as long as you eat.
- To forgive the bad you do wrong to the good.
- Those who know Latin praise the water but drink the wine.
- A sunny May day is worth more than the Milan Cathedral.
- All the hosts say that their wine is better.
- To live long you need good hooves, good broccoli, good hat and little brain.
- Working with joy is the best job there is.
- The trades that nobody wants to do are the most profitable ones.
- To do the innkeeper takes three things: the beautiful woman, the good wine and the jerk man.
- Go sweep the sea.
- The mouth is not satisfied if it doesn't taste like a cow.
- The world is half to sell and half to buy.
- Eat, drink and shut up if you want to live in peace.
- Neither in an inn nor in bed do you get old.
- When it starts to turn gray, leave the woman and stick to the wine.
- Water hurts, in fact they drink it in the hospital.
- Cold polenta and smelly stracchino delight the Milanese.
- Working with joy is the best job there is.
- Neither in an inn nor in bed do you get old.
Lombard sayings
- Being angry is a man, being there is a beast.
- Empty stomach, brain washed out.
- Take money from those who complain and give it to those who smile.
- Good wine is the stick of the old.
- In the world there are three types of cuckolds: happy, angry and unaware.
- Nothing is thrown away from the pig.
- If envy were bad, the whole world would be a hospital.
- Those who arrive late eat leftovers.
- There are three types of madmen: the real ones, the ones who pretend to be, the mad ones.
- Mouth shut up I pay you half a glass.
- As long as bread and wine last, you can not worry about fate.
- The poor miss so much, the miser miss everything.
- The best dishes are tasted at the home of others.
- To go out you tow, to stay at home it dries up.
- Let it snow: bread, wine and hangover.
- The heat of the sheet does not boil the water in the pot.
- More than eating and drinking it cannot be done.
- To get married you need: him, her and even the money bag.
- You break your belly but there is no stuff left over.
- A hundred years as a boyfriend is better than a single day as a married man.
- Rice is born in water and dies in wine.
- Those who hear and keep silent keep peace.
- The meat attached to the bone is the best.
- Coffee should be drunk piping hot, sitting and for no reason.
- You must eat the stew with a spoon.
- Coffee should be drunk piping hot, sitting and for no reason.
- You never get old at the table.
- There are three impossible things: to silence women, to make old men run, to keep boys still.
- On St. Martin's day, throw the water and drink the wine.
- Who knows how to work, who doesn't know teaches.
- Free us, O Lord, from the priest's servant, the miller's pig and the host's daughter.
- The mouth is the comfort of the people.
- Turbid wine is better than clear water.
- Whoever cures the stomach rather than the mouth becomes old.
Lombard proverbs
- Relatives of the rooster out of the boxes, relatives of the hen all in the cellar.
- After forty years a pain every morning.
- Wine is the breast of the old.
- Even priests are wrong to say mass.
- The mouth is not tired if it does not taste like a cow.
- Who is born beautiful is born married.
- Whoever mixes water with wine, makes the water drink in the vat.
- Master commands, trotting horse.
- The master's gratitude is like wine in a flask: today it is good, tomorrow it is dead.
- The good weather and nice people never get bored.
- Wine makes blood, water is used to wash your feet.
- Sin confessed is half forgiven.
- Wine and women make men lose their heads.
- As we grow old we become children.
- A full belly does not take into account an empty one.
- Bread wine and woman, and if it wants to snow it snows.
- Under the snow there is bread, under the bell tower there is bread and also wine.
- The consolation of a desperate is to see another go down the drain.
- Milan can do and say, but it cannot transform water into wine.
- Money fan money, lice fan lice.
- When the vine sprouts in March, you certainly fill the vats.
- Too much confidence makes you lose respect.
- September, September, prepare the vats for wine.
- The first year arm in arm, the second bandages and diapers, the third back to back, the fourth when I've never met you.
- Those who prune in San Martino earn bread and wine.
- Whoever sows thorns does not go barefoot.
- Priests and chickens are never saturated.
- When you are born you are all beautiful, when you get married you are all rich, when you die you are all good.
- Too much abundance makes the belly swell.
- Eat little, eat slowly, go far and always be cheerful if you want to stay healthy.
- For gout it is bon nagotta.
- Those who turn their backs on Milan, turn them to bread.
- Speaking of ass and shit, the soul is preserved.
- You have to believe in half of what you see and in nothing of what you hear.
