List of Best Portuguese Proverbs in English and Sayings
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You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Portuguese Proverbs
Money alone can't make one happy. |
Taking out without putting in, soon comes to the bottom. |
From a closed door the devil turns away. |
The headache is mine and the cows are ours. |
Every one to his liking. Portuguese Sayings |
Those who are born to be small shit never make it to big shit. |
The drowning man is not troubled by rain. |
He is no friend that eats his own by himself, and mine with me. |
Let him eat the tough morsel who eat the tender. |
Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten. |
The opportunity makes the thief. |
She is well married who has neither mother-in-law nor sister-in-law. |
It's hard to please Greeks and Trojans at the same time. |
He who knows little soon blabs it. |
The lame goat does not take a siesta. |
Let the guts be full, for it is they that carry the legs. |
It's better not to poke a jaguar with a short staff. |
Honour and profit will not keep in one sack. |
He is my friend who grinds at my mill. |
Everything must have a beginning. |
A good year is determined by its spring. |
One fool makes a hundred. |
Throw that bone to another dog. |
Death makes us equal in the grave but not in eternity. |
Fair and softly goes far in a day. |
Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged. |
Much straw and little corn. |
Home saints don't make miracles. |
Every one speaks of the feast as he finds it. |
For a voracious beast pebbles in his feed. |
Where the river is deepest it makes the least noise. |
Make good flour and you need no trumpet. |
The man of your own trade is your enemy. |
Marry me forthwith, mother, for my face is growing wrinkled. |
Keep your sickness until Friday and don't fast. |
Laws go where money pleases. |
Fish's child knows how to swim. |
Portuguese Sayings in English |
A guest and a fish stink in three days. Portuguese Sayings in English |
The bad neighbour gives a needle without thread. List of Portuguese Proverbs in English |
Let me go warm, and folks may laugh. Portuguese Sayings in English |
It is well to know how to be silent till it is time to speak. Portuguese Proverbs |
Friends are flowers in the garden of life. Portuguese Sayings in English |
Running by one's will never gets tired. Portuguese Proverbs |
Old horse doesn't learn how to walk. |
Money is not gained by losing time. Portuguese Sayings |
A bird in the hand is more worth than two flying. Portuguese Sayings |
Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee. |
Honour a good man that he may honour you, and a bad man that he may not dishonour you. |
My money, your money, let us go to the tavern. Portuguese Sayings |
Slow help is no help. |
Pray to the saint until you have passed the slough. |
No flies get into a shut mouth. |
A bad knife cuts one's finger instead of the stick. |
Speak little and well, they will think you somebody. |
Mouth from honey, heart of gall. |
Let not him that has a mouth ask another to blow. |
From the soldier who has no cloak, keep your own in your chest. |
Money lent, an enemy made. |
Strength comes from Union. |
Lying pays no tax. |
Much law, but little justice. |
A fault confessed is half forgiven. |
Talk of the wolf and behold his skin. |
In a piranha infested river, monkeys drink water using a straw. |
Much laughter, little brains. |
Jack is as good as his master. |
Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day. |
Martha sings well when she has had her fill. |
The fool passes for wise if he is silent. |
My gossips don't like me because I tell them truths. |
A good word quenches more than a cauldron of water. |
Lay your hand on your bosom and you will not speak ill of another. |
A great thrust of a lance at a dead Moor. |
Make yourself honey and the flies will eat you. |
Let the giver be silent and the receiver speak. |
Much coin, much care. |
Give orders, and do it yourself, and you will be rid of anxiety. |
Short reckonings make long friends. |
Never say, of this water I will not drink, of this bread I will not eat. |
The guests will go away, and we will eat the pasty. |
Marry your son when you please, your daughter when you can. |
A small pack becomes a small pedler. |
Never poke a jaguar with a short stick. |
Party over, musicians by foot. |
No one has seen to-morrow. |
Praise in own mouth is insult. |
Old donkeys do not learn languages. |
The loss which your neighbour does not know is no real loss. |
A word to the wise is enough. |
The accomplice is as bad as the thief. |
Not everything that shines is gold. |
Frost on the mutt, water on the bed. |
Go to your rich friend's house when invited; to your poor friend's without invitation. |
Soft water on hard rock, beats so much that it perforates it. |
The night is good counsellor. |
An angry man heeds no counsel. |
Good words and bad acts deceive both wise and wimple. |
Of evils, choose the least. |
The bread eaten, the company departs. |
To the child and the little bird, God catches the fall. |
God helps them that help themselves. |
Don't leave the high road for a short cut. |
Everything has its time. |
On a fool's beard all learn to shave. |
The sooner begun, the sooner done. |
He who make more of you than he is wont, either means to cheat you or wants you. |
Each monkey on its branch. |
An old monkey will not stick his hand into a jar. |
Hell is paved with good intentions, and roofed with lost opportunities. |
Only people who work make mistakes. |
Death spares neither Pope nor beggar. |
Good habits result from resisting temptation. |
I see by my daughter's face when the devil lays hold of my son-in-law. |
Children tell in the highway what they hear by the fireside. |
Hope is the last to die. |
Beauty is a good letter of introduction. |
In a quarrel between a husband and his wife, keep away. |
Passed waters can't move the mills. |
The wolf eats of what is counted. |
Grief pent up will burst the heart. |
It is better to receive awards that you don't deserve rather than deserve them and not receive them. |
The pitcher that goes often to the well leaves either its handle or its spout there. |
Appearances are deceiving. |
Keep good company and you shall be of the number. |
Better an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. |
It is nothing, they are only killing my husband. |
Prepare a nest for the hen and she will lay eggs for you. |
Let every man look to the bread upon which he must depend. |
Perseverance kills the game. |
Keep no more cats than will catch mice. |
Thinking of where you are going, you forget from whence you came. |
Much laugher, short wisdom. |
Better droping than dry. |
Live to live and you will learn to live. |
Michael, Michael, you have no bees, and yet you sell honey. |
To change one's habits smacks of death. |
He has nothing, for whom nothing is enough. |
They are rich who have friends. |
Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools. |
Better is a leap over the ditch than the entreaties of good men. |
Trust not a dog that limps. |
What is bought is cheaper than a gift. |
Under a shabby cloak may be a smart drinker. |
Rise early, and you will observe; labour, and you will have. |
Better late than never. |
He loves well who never forgets. |
Broken friendship may be soldered but can never be made sound. |
Beware of a door that has many keys. |
War is sweet to him who does not go to it. |
The mill does not grind with water that is past. |
Never cut what can be untied. |
Send a man of sense on the embassy, and you need not instruct him. |
To give is honour, to beg is dishonour. |
When thieves fall out, their knaveries come to light. |
No one is content with his lot. |
Show me a poor man, I will show you a flatterer. |
He that would be old long must begin betimes. |
One good word puts out the flames better than a bucket of water. |
Win a bet of your friend, and drink it on the spot. |
Play with an ass, and he will slap your face with his tail. |
Whither goest thou, Misfortune? To where there is more. |
Bleed him, purge him, and if he dies, bury him. |
Out of sight out of mind. |
Sloth is the mother of poverty. |
Woman, wind, and luck soon change. |
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. |
He who has four and spends five, has no need of a purse. |
Of the good man a good pledge, and of the bad neither pledge nor surety. |
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. * |
Right or wrong, our house up to the roof. |
Some bad things come for good. |
You can't make a good shaft of a pig's tail. |
Change yourself, and fortune will change with you. |
Women are supernumerary when present, and missed when absent. |
The mad dog bites its master. |
Stolen house, locks on the door. |
Women and glass are always in danger. |
He who serves two masters has to lie to one. |
You will not see many with green eyes. |
The ripest fruit will not fall into your mouth. |
Vile let him be who deems himself vile. |
Who will not when he can, can't when he will. |
Here you do, here you pay. |
Portuguese Proverbs Love |
Love should be paid with love. Portuguese Proverbs Download |
Love and lordship like no fellowship. |
Lovers' quarrels are love redoubled. |
Love and faith are seen in their works. Portuguese Proverbs Download or Share Images |
Love knows no law. |
Lovers' fights, double loves. |
Love is blind. |
Love has no law. Portuguese Sayings |
Love is paid with love. |
Poverty never sped well in love. |
Deeds are love, and not sweet words. |
Misery loves company. |
All the world loves a lover. |
Sweet are the tears that are dried by your loved one. |
An old man in love is like a flower in winter. |
If one loves the ugly, one shall find it beautiful. |
Of soup and love, the first is the best. |
Mad love, I for you and you for another. |
To love and be wise is incompatible. |
Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking. |
Tell me your friends and I'll tell you who you are. |
Jack will never make a gentleman. |
Children should be seen and not heard. |
It's best to prevent than to have to remedy. |
Better repair the gutter than the whole house. |
The ass dead, the corn at his tail. |
Let not the tongue utter what the head must pay for. |
I have nothing for dinner, sit down to table. |
Where there is smoke there is fire. |
Between husband and wife, one doesn't put the spoon. |
Money soothes more than the words of a cavalier. |
Destroy the lion while he is but a whelp. |
Not much can be done when everyone is giving orders. |
The beast that goes well never wants a rider to try its paces. |
When the old dog barks, he gives counsel. |
No better moonshine than in august. |
If you know what a dollar is worth, try to borrow it. |
One knows where the shoes hurt. |
Let every man mind his own business, and leave others to theirs. |
Children pick up words, as pigeons peas, And utter them again as God shall please. |
Better just repair the gutter than the whole house. |
The bread never falls but on its buttered side. |
What the eyes don't see the heart doesn't feel. |
The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. |
Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today. |
No one is a good judge in his own cause. |
Another's misfortune does not cure my pain. |
Water by Saint John's takes oil and doesn't give bread. |
Dirty clothes one washes at home. |
If you would be in good repute, let not the sun find you in bed. |
Under the sackcloth there is something else. |
The Sun rises for everybody. |
Peace with a club in hand is war. |
Tell your friends a lie; if he keeps it secret tell him the truth. |
Far from the eyes, far from the heart. |
Money wins the battle, not the long arm. |
Big fish are fished in big rivers. |
The devil is not so ugly as he is painted. |
Each one takes his/her own decisions. |
By going gains the mill, and not by standing still. |
To separate the men from the boys. |
Every one is wise for his own profit. |
In a dangerous river, the alligators swim backstroke. |
Gain has a pleasant odour, come whence it will. |
Time is money. |
Each one in his profession. |
Erring is human, forgiving is divine. |
God has given nuts to one who has no teeth. |
Though the mastiff be gentle, yet bite him not by the lip. |
Friends are friends, business are business. |
In the long run, the greyhound kills the hare. |
If you have a friend who is a doctor, then send him to your enemy's house. |
Let every one be content with what God has given him. |
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. |
Conceal not your secret from your friend, or you deserve to lose him. |
Mad as a wet hen. |
There is never wanting a dog to bark at you. |
The fisherman fishes in troubled water. |
Every land to its own custom, every wheel its own spindle. |
God writes straight by broken lines. |
Little chips kindle fire, and big logs sustain it. |
Good manners and plenty of money will make my son a gentlemen. Portuguese Proverb in English |
The thief becomes the gallows well. |
Give me money, not advice. |
It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master. |
The archer that shoots badly has a lie ready. |
The dog that barks much is never good for hunting. Portuguese Sayings |
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