C开头的意大利语谚语（英意）

 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.