Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese, page 44

914 proverbs and old sayings portuguese

Conceal not your secret from your friend, or you deserve to lose him.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about secret

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

Of the good man a good pledge, and of the bad neither pledge nor surety.

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

If you would make an enemy, lend a man money, and ask for it back again.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about enemies, money, man

If you have a friend who is a physician, send him to your enemy's house.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about enemies, home, house

Never say, of this water I will not drink, of this bread I will not eat.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about drinking, water

The mother-in-law does not remember that she was once a daughter-in-law.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about law, mother

You will know what something is really worth, when you loose it forever.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

There is no pleasure that does not pall, the more so if it costs nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about pleasure, nothing