Rise early, and you will observe; labour, and you will have.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about contentment
The loss which your neighbour does not know is no real loss.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about real estate
In war, hunting, and love, for one pleasure a hundred pains.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about pleasure, war, love
Thinking of where you are going, you forget whence you came.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thinking, contentment
Marry me forthwith, mother, for my face is growing wrinkled.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about mother, face
Children tell in the highway what they hear by the fireside.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about children
When the alms is too large, even a saint will be suspicious.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about saints
In a breadless home, everyone complains and nobody is right.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about rightness, home
Before you marry reflect, for it is a knot you cannot untie.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about contentment
Women are supernumerary when present, and missed when absent.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about absent, present
You may keep yourself safe from fire, but not from a bad man.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about fire, fire brigade, bad luck, bad, man, contentment
Soft water on hard rock, beats so much that it perforates it.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about rocks, water
Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about home, house, man
Three or four daily will bring you to the bottom of the sack.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about contentment
It is well to know how to be silent till it is time to speak.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about time
Give a hint to the man of sense, and consider the thing done.Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about common sense, sense, things, man