Se queres viver saõ, faze-te velho ante tempo.If you would be healthy, be sage betimes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Em bons dias, boas obras.The better day the better deed.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA besta comedeira pedras, na cevadeira.For a voracious beast pebbles in his feed.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAndando ganha a azenha, e naõ estando queda.By going gains the mill, and not by standing still.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNaõ quebra por delgado, senaõ por gordo e mal fiado.Threads do not break for being fine, but for being gouty and ill-spun.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAsno morto, cevada ao rabo.The ass dead, the corn at his tail.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSe queres a agoa limpa, tira-a da fonte viva.If you want clear water, draw it from the spring.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMãi, casai-me logo, que se me arruga o rosto.Marry me forthwith, mother, for my face is growing wrinkled.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNem com cada mal ao medico, nem com cada trampa ao letrado.Go not with every ailment to the doctor, nor with every plaint to the lawyer.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA agoa o dá, a agoa o leva.What water gives, water takes away.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA chave na cinta faz a mim boa, e á minha visinha.The key at the girdle keeps me good and my neighbour too.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesVentura te dé Deos, filho, que saber pouco te basta.God give you luck, my son, for little wit must serve your turn.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesFerro, que naõ se usa, enche-se de ferrugem.Iron that is not used soon rusts.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPrometter naõ he dar, mas a nescios contentar.Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCapaõ de oito mezes, para a meza de Reis.A capon eight months old is fit for a king’s table.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA boca naõ admitte fiador.The belly does not accept bail.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesOvelha, que berra, bocado perde.The sheep that bleats loses a mouthful.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMuita palha, e pouco graõ.Much straw and little corn.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNaõ se lembra a sogra, que foi nora.The mother-in-law does not remember that she was once a daughter-in-law.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNaõ me pago do amigo, que come o seu só, e o meu comigo.He is no friend that eats his own by himself, and mine with me.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMuito folga o lobo com o couce da ovelha.The wolf is well pleased with the kick of a sheep.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAinda nao sellamos, ja cavalgamos.We have not saddled and yet we are riding.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDai-mo pobre, dar-vo-lo-hei lisonjeiro.Show me a poor man, I will show you a flatterer.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHomem de teu officio, teu inimigo.The man of your own trade is your enemy.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources