Portuguese Proverbs (860 Proverbs)
- Fair and softly goes far in a day.
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- Don't let the cat out of the bag.
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- Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better.
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- Better be wrong with the many than right with the few.
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- All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets.
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- A little leak will sink a great ship.
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- A finger's length in a sword, and a palm in a lance, are a great advantage.
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- Would you know your daughter? See her in company.
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- Where shall the ox go but he must labour, since he knows how?
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- To change one's habits has a smell of death.
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- There are many ways to leave this world but only one way to come into it.
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- The master orders the man, the man orders the cat, and the cat orders her tail.
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- The gardener's dog neither eats greens not lets any one else eat them.
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- The beast that goes well never wants a rider to try its paces.
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- Shut your door, and you will make your neighbour good.
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- Open your purse, and I will open my mouth.
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- Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged.
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- Make a silver bridge for a flying enemy.
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- It is the nature of the greyhound to carry a long tail.
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- If you would be in good repute, let not the sun find you in bed.
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- I meant to cross myself and put out one of my eyes.
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- He who has a good next, finds good friends.
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- He has a head, and so has a pin.
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- Give a hint to the man of sense, and consider the thing done.
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- Everybody's friend or nobody's friend, is all one.
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- Don't be a baker if your head is made of butter.
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- Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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- Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.
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- All the wool is hair, more or less.
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- A little injury dismays, and a great one stills.
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- A fast horse does not want the spur.
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- Would you have potatoes grow by the pot-side?
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- When thieves fall out, their knaveries come to light.
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- To be slow in giving ant to refuse, are alike.
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- The worth of a thing is what it will bring.
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- The mare's kick does not harm the colt.
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- The Frenchman sings well, when his throat is moistened.
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- The ass well knows in whose house he brays.
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- Show me a poor man, I will show you a flatterer.
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- One grain does not full the granary, but it helps its companion.
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- Never mention a rope in the house of a thief.
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- Little chips kindle fire, and big logs sustain it.
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- It is nothing, they are only killing my husband.
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- If you would be healthy, be sage betimes.
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- I kiss thee hide, because thou art to be a wine-bag.
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- He who has a glass roof must not throw stones at his neighbour's.
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- He avoided the fly and swallowed the spider.
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- Give a grateful man more than he asks.
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- Every peddler speaks highly about his own needles.
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- Do not tell all that you know, don't believe all you hear, and don't do all that you can.
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- Beware of the door with too many keys.
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- Better be killed by robbers than by the kick of an ass.
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- Alas for the son whose father went to heaven.
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- A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things.
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- A dull ass near home trots without the stick.
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- Would you have me serve you, good king, give me the means of living.
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- What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
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- Time and the hour are not to be tied with a rope.
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- The wolf is well pleased with the kick of a sheep.
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- The man of your own trade is your enemy.
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- The fox knows much, but more he that catcheth him.
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- The ass that trespasses on a stranger's premises will leave them laden with wood.
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- Serve a lord, and you will know what it is to be vexed.
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- One good word puts out the flames better than a bucket of water.
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- Neither trust or contend, nor lay wagers or lend, and you'll have peace to your end.
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- Like king, like law; like law, like people.
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- It is nothing -- they are only thrashing my husband.
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- If you would be a good judge, hear what every one says.
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- I have nothing for dinner, sit down to table.
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- He that would keep his eye sound must tie up his hand.
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- Hard upon hard does not make a good wall.
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- Gain has a pleasant odour, come whence it will.
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- Every one speaks of the feast as he finds it.
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- Do not rear a bird of a bad breed.
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- Beware of the dog that does not bark.
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- Better an egg in peace, than an ox in war.
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- A word from the mouth, a stone from the hand.
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- A great thrust of a lance at a dead Moor.
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- A dog in the manger, that neither eats nor lets others eat.
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- Work expands so as to fill the time available.
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