Famous Italian Quotations

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"Why does the New Italian navy have glass bottom boats? To see the Old Italian Navy!"
by Henny Youngman
"I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood."
by Henny Youngman
"During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland."
by Henny Youngman
"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian."
by H. L. Mencken
"The best armor is to keep out of range."
by Italian Proverb
"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."
by Alice May Brock
"Bed is the poor man's opera."
by Italian Proverb
"He who knows little quickly tells it."
by Italian Proverb
"He who is not impatient is not in love."
by Italian Proverb
"Speak of the Devil and he appears."
by Italian Proverb
"Proverbs bear age, and he who would do well may view himself in them as in a looking glass"
by Italian Proverb
"Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box."
by Italian Proverb
"I was a little scared of Tom, to tell you the truth. He's too unpredictable for me. I don't want to find myself in an Italian prison somewhere, wondering what the hell was I thinking hanging out with Tom Green."
by Todd Hays
"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."
by Italian Proverb
"He that jokes confesses."
by Italian Proverb
"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."
by Italian Proverb
"To him who is determined it remains only to act."
by Italian
"A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have."
by Italian Proverb
"After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box."
by Italian Proverb
"And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that."
by Edie Falco
"As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes."
by Al D'Amato
"As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films."
by Johnny Ramone
"Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time."
by Nikita Khrushchev
"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
by Ambrose Bierce
"Better no law than laws not enforced."
by Italian Proverb
"Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out."
by Italian Proverb
"By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible."
by Italian Proverb
"By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible."
by Italian Proverb
"By learning to obey, you will know how to command."
by Italian Proverb
"Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another."
by Italian Proverb
"He who begins many things finishes but few."
by Italian Proverb
"He who knows nothing doubts nothing."
by Italian Proverb
"Heaven is where the police are British, the mechanics German, the cooks are French the lovers Italian, and all is organized by the Swiss."
by Eliane Kirchner
"If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot."
by Italian Proverb
"It is a good answer that knows when to stop."
by Italian Proverb
"It is not enough to aim; you must hit."
by Italian Proverb
"It is not enough to aim you must hit."
by Italian Proverb
"Let every fox take care of his own tail."
by Italian Proverb
"Love rules without rules."
by Italian Proverb
"Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind."
by Italian Proverb
"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."
by Italian Proverb
"The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel."
by Eduard Hanslick
"Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas."
by Italian Proverb
"To a quick question, give a slow answer."
by Italian Proverb
"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese garlic makes it good."
by Alice May Brock
"We have been working with Italian authorities, and we'll continue to work with them as they investigate those who have been arrested."
by Richard Boucher
"Who depends on another man's table often dines late."
by Italian Proverb
"Years and sins are always more than owned."
by Italian Proverb
"Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us."
by Italian Proverb
"Hasty climbers have sudden falls."
by Italian Proverb
"Old wine and friends improve with age."
by Italian Proverb
"'Break the legs of evil custom.'"
by Italian Proverb
"A little man often cast a long shadow."
by Italian Proverb
"A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth -- science -- which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth."
by Leo Tolstoy
"Within ten years, the Italian Ministry of Health has withdrawn from the market 22,621 drugs because of toxic side-effects.'"
by Anonymous
"The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventhday Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor whosees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme."
by Ray Bradbury
"Beware of one who has nothing to lose."
by Italian Proverb
"At a round table there is no dispute about place."
by Italian Proverb
"Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast."
by Italian Proverb
"Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad."
by Italian Proverb
"After the game the King and pawn go into the same box."
by Italian Proverb
"Often he who does too much does too little."
by Italian Proverb
"When the danger is past God is cheated."
by Italian Proverb
"Our last garment is made without pockets."
by Italian Proverb
"The person who lives by hope will die by despair."
by Italian Proverb
"It's a straightforward matter of equality: it's outrageously unfair that heterosexuals shoulder alone the burden of keeping divorce lawyers in Italian sports cars"
by Mark Simpson
"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."
by Italian Proverb
"Hunger is the best sauce."
by Italian Proverb
"He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive."
by Italian Proverb
"The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first."
by Italian Proverb
"Misfortune does not always result in harm."
by Italian Proverb
"Big mouthfuls often choke."
by Italian Proverb
"Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian."
by H.L. Mencken
"The healthy die first."
by Italian Proverb
"He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not."
by Italian Proverb
"Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy."
by Italian Proverb
"He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope."
by Italian Proverb
"An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Sweedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."
by Edith Wharton
"Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians."
by Anonymous
"The right man comes at the right time."
by Italian Proverb
"The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp."
by Italian Proverb
"Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself."
by Italian Proverb
"Substance is not enough, accident is also required."
by Italian Proverb
"If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent."
by Italian Proverb
"Moderate profits fill the purse."
by Italian Proverb
"Where gold speaks every tongue is silent."
by Italian Proverb
"Money begets money."
by Italian Proverb
"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."
by Shawshank Redemption
"Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian."
by H. L. Mencken
"I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate."
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
"She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you."
by Bob Dylan
"Voice of one, voice of none."
by Italian Proverb
"The best way to get praise is to die."
by Italian Proverb
"When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom."
by Italian Proverb
"There is no robber worse than a bad book."
by Italian Proverb
"Reason lies between the bridle and the spur."
by Italian Proverb
"The rich never have to seek out their relatives."
by Italian Proverb
"You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"
by The Italian job
"The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him."
by Italian Proverb
"After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved."
by Italian Proverb


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