Boa meza, máo testamento.Good table, bad will.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Bom coraçaõ quebranta má ventura.A stout heart breaks ill fortune.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesOnde irá o boi, que naõ are?Where shall the ox go, and not have to plough?
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesManda o sabio com embaixada, e naõ lhe digas nada.Send a man of sense on the embassy, and you need not instruct him.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNaõ te faças pobre, a quem te naõ ha da fazer rico.Don’t make yourself poor to one who won’t make you rich.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBom saber he calar, até ser tempo de fallar.It is well to know how to be silent till it is time to speak.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesOfficio de conselho, honra sem proveito.A seat in the council is honour without profit.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNaõ tem nada, quem nada lhe basta.He has nothing, for whom nothing is enough.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPaga o que deves, sararàs do mal que tens.Pay what you owe, you will get well of your malady.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBom principio, he ametade.Well begun is half done.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCada hum falla como quem he.Every one speaks as he is.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesO couce da egoa naõ faz mal ao potro.The mare’s kick does not harm the colt.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSenta-te no teu lugar, naõ te faraó levantar.Seat yourself in your place, and they will not make you rise.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesOnde naõ ha honra, naõ ha deshonra.Where there is no honour there is no dishonour.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPouco damno espanta, e muito amansa.A little injury dismays, and a great one stills.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMolher palreira diz de todos, e todos della.A gossiping woman talks of everybody, and everybody of her.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCerra tua porta, farás tua visinha boa.Shut your door, and you will make your neighbour good.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuem pouco sabe, asinha o reza.He who knows little soon blabs it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA mórtos, e a idos, naõ ha amigos.The dead and the absent have no friends.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDar he honra, e pedir deshonra.To give is honour, to beg is dishonour.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMinha arca cerrada, minha alma sã.My chest locked, my soul safe.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesManda, e descuida, naõ se fará cousa nenhuma.Give orders, and do no more, and nothing will be done.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesOnde o lobo acha hum cordeiro, busca outro.Where the wolf picks up one sheep he looks for another.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBeijo-te, bóde, porque has de ser odre.I kiss thee hide, because thou art to be a wine-bag.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources