Better an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.
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A dog in the manger, that neither eats nor lets others eat.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
An hour of play discovers more than a year of conversation.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about conversation
It is approved alchemy to have an income and spend nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about nothing
Michael, Michael, you have no bees, and yet you sell honey!
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about commerce
A gossiping woman talks of everybody, and everybody of her.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about woman
A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about wealth
Play with an ass, and he will slap your face with his tail.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about face
The thief who steals another one is forgiven for 100 years.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves
Rise early, and you will observe; labour, and you will have.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
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
He made me mad To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
Thinking of where you are going, you forget whence you came.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thinking
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
Women are supernumerary when present, and missed when absent.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about absent, present
