Give orders, and do no more, and nothing will be done.
More Portuguese Proverbs:
Everybody's friend or nobody's friend, is all one.Portuguese
A goose, a woman, and a goat, are bad things lean.
Portuguese
Who holds his peace and gathers stones, will find a time to throw them.
Portuguese
Let the dog bark at me, so he don't bite me.
Portuguese
Many kiss the hand they would gladly see cut off.
Portuguese
Friends and mules fail us at hard passes.
Portuguese