619 sayings with source references.
Se queres ser pobre sem o sentir, mette obreiro, deita-te a dormir.If you would grow poor without perceiving it, employ workmen and go to sleep.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHum doudo fará cento.One fool makes a hundred.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCahir da certã na braza.Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA muita cautela, damno naõ causa.Much caution does no harm.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAccommodar o pé ao sapato, e naõ o sapato ao pé.Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the foot.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesOs erros dos medicos a terra os cobre.The blunders of physicians are covered by the earth.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMelhor he ser torto, que cego de todo.Better be one-eyed than quite blind.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAntes com bons a furtar, que com máos a orar.Rather go rob with good men than pray with bad.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAbraçou-se o asno com a ameixieira, e acharaõ-se parentes.The ass embraced the thistle, and they found themselves relations.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuem se cala, e pedras apanha, tempo vem que as derrama.Who holds his peace and gathers stones, will find a time to throw them.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPeleijaõ os ladrones, descobrem-se os furtos.When thieves fall out, their knaveries come to light.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBem parece o ladraõ na forca.The thief becomes the gallows well.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA adem, a mulher, e a cabra, he má cousa sendo magra.A goose, a woman, and a goat, are bad things lean.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCada qual sente o seu mal.Every one knows where his own shoe pinches him.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesOnde entra o beber, sahe o saber.When the wine is in, the wit is out.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuem quando póde naõ quer, quando quer naõ póde.Who will not when he can, can’t when he will.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEm quanto ha vida, ha esperança.While there is life there is hope.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe ferreiro a ferreiro naõ passa dinheiro.Between smith and smith no money passes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBoy velho, rego direito.An old ox makes a straight furrow.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCoraçaõ sem arte, naõ cuida maldade.An innocent heart suspects no guile.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesO perro com raiva a seu amo morde.The mad dog bites its master.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesO parvo, se he callado, por sabio he reputado.The fool passes for wise if he is silent.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNaõ sejais forneiro, se tendes a cabeça de manteiga.Don’t be a baker if your head is made of butter.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuem tem quatro, e gasta cinco, naõ há mister bolsa, nem bolsinho.He who has four and spends five, has no need of a purse.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources