Thinking of where you are going, you forget whence you came.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thinking, contentment
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43574 proverbs and old sayings
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
Where shall the ox go but he must labour, since he knows how?
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
Soft water on hard rock, beats so much that it perforates it.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about rocks, water
The sword and the ring according to the hand that bears them.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
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
He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
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
He is no great heir that inherits not his ancestor's virtues.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about ancestors
Seat yourself in your place, and they will not make you rise.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about contentment
The bird hunting a locust is unaware of the hawk hunting him.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
The chicken that stays in the farmyard, will peck the crumbs.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
