Sayings
Written by Ithacorama Portal on 24.10.2013The Ithacan sayings are a good example of the local dialect, sense of humor, and quite often are self-sarcastic.
The popular philosophy, the daily problems and the way of thinking of the island are also included within the small phrases.
- Some people love the priest, but others his wife.
- It’s more difficult for a rude fellow to become a gentleman than pig's hair to turn smooth like silk.
- A hen for a poor man is like a horse for a rich one.
- Don't become a friend of a baker, fisherman or butcher, because if you think well about it, all three of them are jackasses.
- If you screw around in August, it’ll be a bad winter (refering to crops).
- Charon has an entrance, but never an exit.
- If you drink borrowed wine, you get drunk twice.
- The people who buy wheat have both eyes, those who buy flour have only one, and those who buy bread areblind.
- It’s inconvenient where allowed and comfortable where it’s forbidden.
- Wet feet, fish to eat.
- A thief not caught a lord he becomes.
- Many only want a lot but one wants everything.
- In a close friendship a quarrel is foreseen.
- The forest has ears and the valley has eyes.
- God gives to the lazy two large coρνloaves and to the worker only one of barely.
- Prudents prepare weddings, crazy people take part. The devil who becomes poor, a pirate he becomes. Good wine in the tavern has a short life.
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Reference:
-Ιθάκη Τότε και Τώρα- Εκδσεις Σπύρος Δενδρινός, Σπύρος Χ. Δενδρινός - Αλέκος Φ. Καλλίνικος
-Ιστορικά και Λαογραφικά Ανάλεκτα της Ιθάκης - Ανδρέα Λ. Αναγνωστάτου
-Θιάκά Μοιρολόγια (Ημερολόγιο Ιθάκης, 1929)
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