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Fa la corte a le vecie, se te voi piaserghe a le zovane
Court the elderly women if you want to like to the young ones
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Falo de medego: volontà de Dio
Physician errors are divine will
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Far da Zane [Giovanni] e da buratin
To do a little of everything
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Far de un pan tre fete e do panàe [torte di pane ?]
Getting three slices and two pies from one bread
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Far tre passi in un quarelo
Making three jumps on a tile
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Fèmene, cani e bacaeà: pì che te bati, pì i vien boni
Women, dogs and dried cod: more you beat them and more good become
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Fìe da maridar, ossi duri da rosegar
Daughters to marry off: hard bone to gnaw [big challenges]
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Fin che g'è pane in convento, i frati no i manca
As long as there is bread in the monastery, you will find monks there
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Fin che na bea xe vardà, na bruta xe marida
While a beautiful woman is admired , that ugly gets married
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Fin che on grosso se smagra, on magro crepa
While fats follow a diet, thin ones die
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Fioi da slevare, fero da rosegare
Children to grow: iron to bite
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Fortunà come el can in ciesa
Lucky as a dog in church
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Fradeli corteli; cognade spade
Brothers as knives, sisters-in-law as swords
(Brothers arguing, sisters-in-law struggling)
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Frua la bareta chi sela cava a tuti
Who takes off his cap in front of everyone, consumes it
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Fumo e dona cativa fa scapar l'omo de casa
Smoke and bad wife make her husband to escape from home
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Gato serà: deventa leon
A cat confined in the cage becomes a beast
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Ghe voe sete fémene pa fare un testimone
Seven women are needed to make a single witness
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Ghe xe chi crede de esser a cavalo, e no'l xe gnanca a piè
Someone believes to be on horseback, but he doesn't even walk
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Ghe xe più dì che luganega
The days to pass are more than the sausage to eat
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Ghe xe tre sorte de mati: el porco che co xe neto va a sporcarse, l'anara che co la xe suta va a bagnarse, e i preti che quando more un i canta
There are three types of fools: the clean pig when it goes into the manure pit, the dry duck when it goes to wet, and the priest that sings when someone dies
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Gnente xe bon par i oci
Nothing is good for the eyes
(Nothing feeds you, if only you look at it)
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Grame quele cause in cui tuti ga rason
Cases unfortunate, those where everyone is right
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