意大利会话谚语C

Cambiano i suonatori ma la musica è sempre quella.
　　English translation: The melody's changed but the song remains the same.
　　Cane che abbaia non morde.
　　English translation: The dog that barks doesn't bite.
　　Idiomatic meaning: His bark is worse than his bite.
　　Casa senza fimmina 'mpuvirisci. (Sicilian proverb)
　　English translation: How poor is a home without a woman!
　　Chi ben comincia è a metà dell'opera.
　　English translation: A good start is half the battle
　　Chi cento ne fa, una ne aspetti.
　　English translation: What goes around comes around.
　　Chi cerca trova.
　　English translation: Seek and you shall find.
　　Chi di spada ferisce di spada perisce.
　　English translation: He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
　　Chi dorme non piglia pesci.
　　English translation: Who sleeps doesn't catch fishes.
　　Idiomatic meaning: The early bird catches the worm.
　　Chi è causa del suo male piange se stesso.
　　English translation: He who has created his own evil cries over the same.
　　Idiomatic meaning: He who has made his bed must lie in it.
　　Chi fa da sé, fa per tre.
　　English translation: He who works by himself does the work of three (people).
　　Idiomatic meaning: Do it yourself if you want it done right.
　　Chi fa falla, e chi non fa sfarfalla.
　　English translation: Those who act make mistakes; and those who do nothing really blunder.
　　Chi ha avuto ha avuto e chi ha dato ha dato.
　　English translation: What's done is done.
　　Chi ha fretta vada piano.
　　English translation: Make haste slowly.
　　Chi ha moglie ha doglie.
　　English translation: A wife means pains.
　　Chi lava il capo all'asino perde il ranno e il sapone.
　　English translation: He who scrubs the head of an ass wastes his time and efforts.
　　Chi non fa, non falla.
　　English translation: Those who do nothing, make no mistakes.
　　Chi non ha moglie non ha padrone.
　　English translation: A man without a wife is a man without a master.
　　Chi non risica, non rosica.
　　English translation: Nothing ventured nothing gained

Chi pecora si fa, il lupo se la mangia.
　　English translation: Those who make themselves sheep will be eaten by the wolf.
　　Chi più sa, meno crede.
　　English translation: The more one knows, the less one believes.
　　Chi prima non pensa in ultimo sospira.
　　English translation: He who first does not think breathes his last.
　　Idiomatic meaning: Look before you leap.
　　Chi sa fa e chi non sa insegna.
　　English translation: Those who know, do, and those who don't, teach.
　　Chi s'aiuta, Dio l'aiuta.
　　English translation: God helps those who help themselves.
　　Chi tace acconsente.
　　English translation: Silence gives consent.
　　Chi tardi arriva male alloggia.
　　English translation: Those who arrive late lodge poorly.
　　Chi trova un amico trova un tesoro.
　　English translation: He who finds a friend, finds a treasure.
　　Chi va piano, va sano; chi va sano, va lontano.
　　English translation: He who goes softly, goes safely; he who goes safely, goes far.
　　Idiomatic meaning: Slowly but surely.
　　Chi vince ha sempre ragione.
　　English translation: Might makes right.
　　Con niente non si fa niente.
　　English translation: You can't make something from nothing