Proverbs and old sayings, page 1623

43574 proverbs and old sayings

All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about wealth, world, man

Let every one be content with what God has given him.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about god

God grant me to dispute with those who understand me.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about dispute, god

A pig on credit makes a good winter and a bad spring.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about spring, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Who eats his fowl alone, must saddle his horse alone.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a king.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about blind, man

In a dangerous river, the alligators swim backstroke.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Not much is achieved where everyone gives the orders.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

He who stores, albeit being hungry, the rat will eat.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about stores, being

Give orders, and do no more, and nothing will be done.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about nothing

From several possible events, the less worse happened.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about events

Better be wrong with the many than right with the few.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about bad, rightness

Shut your door, and you will make your neighbour good.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about good, good luck, contentment

He that would keep his eye sound must tie up his hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

If you give orders and leave, the work won't get done.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about work, contentment

Death makes us equal in the grave but not in eternity.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about eternity, death

Tell her she is handsome, and you will turn her brain.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about brain, contentment

Those who are born to pennies never make it to pounds.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Beware of a bad woman, and put no trust in a good one.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about woman, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

He who would catch fish must not mind wetting himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about mind, trap, fishing