Would you have me serve you, good king, give me the means of living.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about contentment, good, good luck
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Beware of a man that does not talk, and of a dog that does not bark.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about man
She is well married who has neither mother-in-law nor sister-in-law.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about law, mother
Tell your friend your secret, and he will set his foot on your neck.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about secret
Make the night night, and the day day, and you will live pleasantly.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about night, day, contentment
An empty purse, and a finished house, make a man wise, but too late.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about home, house, man
Better to have friends in the marketplace than money in your coffers.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about money
Conceal not your secret from your friend, or you deserve to lose him.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about secret, contentment
Every one stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
I see by my daughter's face when the devil lays hold of my son-in-law.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about law, devil, face
The gardener's dog neither eats greens not lets any one else eat them.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
Though we may pluck flowers by the way we may not sleep among flowers.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about flowers, sleep
Threads do not break for being fine, but for being gouty and ill-spun.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about being
A rash man, a skin of good wine, and a glass vessel, do not last long.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about wine, good, good luck, man
Wipe the nose of your neighbour's son, and marry him to your daughter.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
Better deserve honour and not have it, than have it and not deserve it.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about honour
Who holds his peace and gathers stones, will find a time to throw them.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about peace, time
Hell is paved with good intentions, and roofed with lost opportunities.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about chance, hell, good, good luck
The thief proceeds from a needle to gold, and from gold to the gallows.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves
How did you rear so many children? By being fondest of the little ones.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about being, children, contentment
