Neapolitan:  "I guai della pigniata sabe sol' o cucchiao."
"The troubles deep in the pot are known only by the spoon."

Italian:  "Esse nufesso qui dice male di macaruni."
"Who speaks badly of Macaroni is a fool."

"When the Italians got to America, they learned three things:
- that the streets were not paved with gold;
- that the streets were not paved at all;
- and that they were expected to pave them."