Na agoa envolta pesca o pescador.The fisherman fishes in troubled water.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Da ma molher te guarda, e da boa naõ fies nada.Beware of a bad woman, and put no trust in a good one.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBem perdido, he conhecido.A good thing is known when it is lost.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMuito prometter he sinal de pouco dar.To promise much means giving little.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA falta do amigo ha de se conhecer, mas naõ aborrecer.A friend’s fault should be known but not abhorred.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesO galgo, à larga, a lebre mata.In the long run, the greyhound kills the hare.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAo Rey pertence usar de franqueza, pois tem por certo naõ cahir em pobreza.It befits the king to be liberal, for he is sure of never falling into poverty.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAlfaiate mal vestido, sapateiro mal calçado.The tailor ill-dressed, the shoemaker ill-shod.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBezerrinha mansa todas as vaccas mamma.The gentle calf sucks all the cows.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMelhor he errar com muitos, que acertar com poucos.Better be wrong with the many than right with the few.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesO filho do asno huma hora no dia orneja.The ass’s son brays one hour daily.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesO dia de amanhã ninguem o vio.No one has seen to-morrow.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNada tem, quem se naõ contenta com o que tem.He has nothing who is not content with what he has.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNaõ tem que comer, assenta-se a mesa.I have nothing for dinner, sit down to table.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSe tens physico teu amigo, manda-o a casa de teu inimigo.If you have a friend who is a physician, send him to your enemy’s house.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDuas aves de rapina naõ se guardaõ companhia.Birds of prey do not flock together.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBem ama, quem nunca se esquece.He loves well who never forgets.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDoce he a guerra, para quem naõ andou nella.War is sweet to him who does not go to it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHonra e proveito naõ cabem em hum sacco.Honour and profit will not keep in one sack.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesO bom vinho naõ ha mester ramo.Good wine needs no bush.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNem tanto puxar, que se quebre a corda.Don’t pull hard enough to break the rope.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNasce na horta o que naõ semea o hortelaõ.More grows in a garden than the gardener sows there.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA casa do amigo rico irás sendo requerido, e a casa do necessitado sem ser chamado.Go to your rich friend’s house when invited; to your poor friend’s without invitation.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA molher, e a gallinha por andar se perde asinha.A woman and a hen are soon lost through gadding.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources