Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese, page 43

914 proverbs and old sayings portuguese

Tell me with whom thou goest, and I'll tell thee what thou doest.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Neither handsome enough to kill nor ugly enough to frighten away.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Lay your hand on your bosom and you will not speak ill of another.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Send a man of sense on the embassy, and you need not instruct him.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about common sense, sense, need, man

Whilst the tall maid is stooping, the little one sweeps the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about home, house

A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about home, house

Better have friends in the market-place than money in your coffer.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about money

The ass embraced the thistle, and they found themselves relations.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Tell your friends a lie; if he keeps it secret tell him the truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about secret, lie, truth

The person who is well prepared has already won half of the battle.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about people

Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries as he has the luck.

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

A girl, a vineyard, an orchard, and a bean-field, are hard to watch.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about garden

If the deceased is no good, one shouldn't waste good candles on him.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about good, good luck

Would you have me serve you, good king, give me the means of living.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about good, good luck

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

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