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Supper is soon served up in a plentiful house.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Pray to the saint until you have passed the slough.
(Portuguese Proverb)
No word is ill spoken, that is not ill taken.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Marry me forthwith, mother, for my face is growing wrinkled.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Keep your sickness until Friday and don't fast.
(Portuguese Proverb)
In default of bread, meal cakes are good.
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I want more for my teeth than for my relations.
(Portuguese Proverb)
He who serves two masters has to lie to one.
(Portuguese Proverb)
He is no great heir that inherits not his ancestor's virtues.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Go to bed without supper, you will rise without debt.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Follow the road and you will reach an inn.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Even the most beautiful sheets have small flaws.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Chastise the good man, he will grow better; chastise the bad, and he will grow worse.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Better have to give than have to beg.
(Portuguese Proverb)
An hour of play discovers more than a year of conversation.
(Portuguese Proverb)
A man of straw is better than a woman of gold.
(Portuguese Proverb)
You have lent and not recovered; and if recovered, not so much; and if so much, not such; and if such, a mortal enemy.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Where there is no honour there is no dishonour.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Too many candles will burn down the church.
(Portuguese Proverb)
There is reason in the roasting of eggs.
(Portuguese Proverb)
The old saints are forgotten in the new.
(Portuguese Proverb)
The hen's eyes turn to where she has her eggs.
(Portuguese Proverb)
The blind man has picked up a coin.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Spinner, spin softly, you disturb me; I am praying.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Play with an ass, and he will slap your face with his tail.
(Portuguese Proverb)
No woman is ugly if she is well dressed.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Many kiss the hand they would gladly see cut off.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Keep no more cats that will catch mice.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Ill fares the young bird in the urchin's hand.
(Portuguese Proverb)
I see by my daughter's face when the devil lays hold of my son-in-law.
(Portuguese Proverb)
He who makes one basket can make a hundred.
(Portuguese Proverb)
He is no friend that eats his own by himself, and mine with me.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Go to bed late, rise early, you will see your own harm and that of others.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Feign death and the bull will leave you.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Eat of your own, and call yourself mine (i.e. Be my servant and find yourself).
(Portuguese Proverb)
Change yourself, and fortune will change with you.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Better have friends in the market-place than money in your coffer.
(Portuguese Proverb)
An honest man's word is as good as the king's.
(Portuguese Proverb)
A loss not missed by your neighbor is not a real loss.
(Portuguese Proverb)
You can't make horn of a pig's tail.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Where there is no fire, no smoke rises.
(Portuguese Proverb)
To the bold man Fortune holds out her hand.
(Portuguese Proverb)
There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.
(Portuguese Proverb)
The mouth that says "Yes," can say "No."
(Portuguese Proverb)
The hen that stays at home picks up the crumbs.
(Portuguese Proverb)
The bird hunting a locust is unaware of the hawk hunting him.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Speak little and well, they will think you somebody.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Pigs in the cold and men in drink make a great noise.
(Portuguese Proverb)
No one is poor but he who thinks himself so.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Make your son you heir and not your steward.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Keep good company and you shall be of the number.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Ill befal the belly that forgets eaten bread.
(Portuguese Proverb)
I saw a man, who saw another man, who saw the sea.
(Portuguese Proverb)
He who make more of you than he is wont, either means to cheat you or wants you.
(Portuguese Proverb)
He is an old saint, any may leave it in the hands of God.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Go not with every hunger to the cupboard, nor with every thirst to the pitcher.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Favour oft avails more than justice or reason.
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Don't pull hard enough to break the rope.
(Portuguese Proverb)
By going gains the mill, and not by standing still.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Better have a bad ass than be your own ass.
(Portuguese Proverb)
An empty purse, and a finished house, make a man wise, but too late.
(Portuguese Proverb)
A looker on sees more of the game than a player.
(Portuguese Proverb)
A friend's fault should be known but not abhorred.
(Portuguese Proverb)
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Where the cock is the hen does not crow.
(Portuguese Proverb)
To sell honey to one who keeps hives.
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There is never wanting a dog to bark at you.
(Portuguese Proverb)
The mother-in-law does not remember that she was once a daughter-in-law.
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The headache is mine and the cows are ours.
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The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
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Soft water constantly striking the hard stone, wears it at last.
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Peace with a cudgel in hand is war.
(Portuguese Proverb)
No one is a good judge of his own case.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Make the night night, and the day day, and you will live pleasantly.
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Jack of all trades and master of none.
(Portuguese Proverb)
If you would make an enemy, lend a man money, and ask for it back again.
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I renounce the golden basin in which I have to spit blood.
(Portuguese Proverb)
He who is well prepared has won the battle.
(Portuguese Proverb)
He has nothing, for whom nothing is enough.
(Portuguese Proverb)
Give orders, and do it yourself, and you will be rid of anxiety.
(Portuguese Proverb)
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