Enjoy dozens of witty and insightful Portuguese proverbs and idioms that have been passed down from one generation to the next for hundreds of years!
- A dog bitten by a snake is afraid of sausages.
- There are many ways to leave this world, but only one way to come into it.
- An old monkey will not stick his hand into a jar.
- Good management is better than good income.
- No one is a good judge of his own case.
- Peace with a club in hand is war.
- God gives nuts to those who have no teeth.
- He buys very dear who begs.
- To change one’s habits has a smell of death.
- Be sure not to owe anything to the rich, and don’t lend anything to the poor.
- Beauty is a good letter of introduction.
- Never say, “Of this water I will never drink.”
- Change yourself, change your fortunes.
- Don’t leave for tomorrow what you can do today.
- In April, tons of water.
- Having need of makes the ugly beautiful.
- Each one with his peer.
- The mouth that can say “yea,” can say “nay.”
- Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- There is a remedy for everything; it is called death.
- Live to live, and you will learn to live.
- Everyone to his trade.
- A girl, a vineyard, and a bean field are difficult to guard.
- An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late.
- If marriage were a good thing, it wouldn’t need witnesses.
- Stumbling is not falling.
- Meowing cats catch fewer mice.
- A busy mother makes slothful daughters.
- Beware of silent dogs and still waters.
- There’s no catching trout with dry breeches.
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