| Admiration
is the daughter of ignorance. |
| Adversity makes man,
but prosperity makes monster. |
| He who does not look ahead
remains behind. |
| Appearances are
deceptive. (aparências são enganadoras) |
| April and May, the
keys of the year. |
| Authority compels not
to do good, but prevents from doing ill. |
| If authority has no
ears to listen it has no head to govern. |
| Be not a baker if your
head be of butter. (manteiga). |
| No one goes to bed without
learning something new. |
| A bee (abelha) was
never caught in a shower. (enxurrada) |
| In every beginning think of the
end. |
| A bird in the hand is
worth two in the bush (bosque). |
| Don’t count your chickens
before they are hatched. |
| A clear conscience
makes a self pilllow. (almofada) |
| A clear conscience is
the best guest of the house. |
| Talk of conscience and
you will having not to eat. |
| Death levels (nivela)
all men. |
| Desesperation is the mistress
of the impossible. |
| He begins to die who quits (renuncia)
his desires. |
| What is much desired is not
believed when it comes. |
| Everyone has his own devil,
and some have two. |
| The devil is not always behind
the door. |
| All things are difficult before they are easy. |
| He who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to
command. |
| Do as you would be
done by. |
| Do what is right and
lawful, and do it a thousand times a day. |
| When one door is shut, a
hundred is opened. |
| Duty before pleasure. |
| Easy does it. (com
calma vai) |
| To err is human; to
forgive, divine. |
| An old error has more
friends than a new truth. |
| Example is better than
precept. (preceito) |
| If the evil will not
leave you, leave it. |
| Of two evils chose the
less. |
| Fair and softly goes
far. |
| Where there is no fear,
there is no respect. |
| The first step is the
most difficult one. |
| Everyone knows what fits
(convém) him. |
| The friend looks at
the head, the enemy at the foot. |
| Friends and books
should be few and good. |
| He gives twice who
gives without delay. |
| No gains without pains.
(trabalho) |
| Do the likeliest and God
will do the best. |
| Danger past, God
forgotten. |
| Fear God and him who
fears God. |
| For a web (teia) God
sends the thread (linha). |
| God is an enemy to
excess. |
| God looks to clean
hands, not to full ones. |
| God writes straight on
crooked lines. |
| God sends fortune to
fools. |
| If God orders you to
pull, He will give you a rope; if He wants you to ride, He will give you a
horse. |
| If you fear God you
will not fear man. |
| If you have God as
your protector, what affliction have you. |
| Nothing without God. |
| Spend and God will
send; spare (economiza) and ever bare (descobrir). |
| The grace of God is
gear (engrenagem) enough. |
| The best trading is with
God. |
| The voice of the people is
the voice of God. |
| There must be no patience
when God says haste. |
| What can your enemies do if you enjoy
de favour of God? |
| When God corrects He greatly
afflicts. |
| Without God and
concord nothing can be done. |
| He who is not good to himself,
how can he be good to others? |
| The good are always prone to
tears. |
| A good appetite needs
no sauce. (molho) |
| If you would be a good
judge, pay attention to what everyone says. |
| A good maxim is never
out of season. |
| Good things come to
some people while they sleep. |
| Grief (aflição) pays
no debt. |
| A guest and a fish
after three days are poison. |
| The only happy man is
he who thinks he is. |
| Haste comes of the
evil one; leisure from God. |
| The hasty leaps over
his opportunities. |
| A big head, a big
headache. |
| A head with tongue is
more costly. |
| The heart has no
secret which our conduct does not reveal. |
| Hunger is the best
relish (tempero) for food. |
| Inactivity rusts the
mind. |
| A Journey of a
thousand miles began with a simple step. (Taoísmo) |
| Learn the past and you will
know the future. |
| First learn, then form opinions.
|
| Much have I learned from my
masters, more from my colleagues, most from my disciples. |
| What is learned in the
cradle (berço) lasts till the tomb. (túmulo) |
| A thousand learnings are not
worth one seeing. |
| Collect at leisure to
use in haste. |
| Done leisurely, done
well. |
| Liberty is from God,
liberties from the devil. |
| Little will grow to much.
|
| Too little and too
much spois everything. |
| Cease to struggle and you cease to
live. |
| He who love fears, and
he who fears loves not. |
| Moderation is a good
thing, but don't be immoderate about it (don't overdo it)." |
| It doesn't matter whether you are
right ou not; if you have no money you are wrong. |
| Money cannot buy things that
are not for sale. |
| Love can do much; money
everything. |
| With money you are a dragon;
without it a worm. |
| Govern your mouth
according to your purse. |
| Necessity breaks or
changes law. |
| Necessity is the
mother of invention. |
| Necessity knows no law. |
| Love your neighbour,
but don’t pull down the fence. |
| Never mind, the day of
reckoning will come. |
| Never quarrel
with Providence. |
| Never quit certainty
for hope. |
| A "no" in time is
better than a late "yes". |
| By searching the old,
learn the new. |
| In old men there is no taste,
in young no insight. |
| Old saws (aforismos)
speak truth. |
| Form your opinion of a
man from his question rather than from his answers. |
| The gods cannot help a man
who loses opportunities. |
| As the pains, so the
gains. |
| Paper suffers
everything. |
| You may put anything on
paper. |
| Perseverance is mother
of sucess. |
| No man is a prophet in
his own country. |
| A proverb is the key
of the thought. |
| A frequent review of
proverbs should enter into our reading. |
| Death and proverbs
love brevity. |
| Proverb is an old word. |
| Proverbs are not vain
words. |
| Proverbs are the
daughters of daily experience. |
| Proverbs are the
wisdom of the ages. |
| The genius, wit, and spirit
of a nation are discovered in its proverbs. |
| Quality matters more
than quantity. |
| A good question is like one
beating a bell. |
| Nothing is more eloquent than
ready money. |
| Religion destroys evil,
morality merely hides it. |
| Nothing is better than resignation. |
| Don't consider your reputation
and you may do anything you like. |
| Two things rule the world:
reward and punishement |
| Self-praise is no
recommmendation. |
| Silence is golden,
speech is silver. |
| Work as a slave, and
eat as a lord. |
| Sooner said than done.
|
| Speak little with
others, much with yourself. |
| Let writings speak and mouth be silent. |
| Speech is the
messenger of the hurt. |
| Spend and God will send.
|
| Some study shows the need for more. |
| A suffer soon becomes
a great talker. |
| Suffer much or die
early. |
| Sufferings are lessons. |
| There is always one who suffers. |
| Who suffers lives long. |
| Let not the sun go
down upon your wreth. (Não deixes que a tua ira dure mais do que um dia) |
| Everyone to his own taste. |
| Talk if you wish to be known |
| A talkative man son
consoles himself. |
| He thinks not who
reflects not. |
| He who thinks well
need not think much. |
| He who has time and waits, time will come when he
repents (arrepender-se). |
| Don't put off till
tomorrow, what you can do today. |
| The remedy of tomorrow is too
late for the evil of today. |
| Accustom they tongue to say "I
know not". |
| Everything comes to him who
waits. |
| Hidden wisdom is a
buried treasure. |
| No one is wise alone. |
| The wise make more use
of their enemies than fools of their friends. |
| The wise seek wisdom,
a fool has found it. |
| A wise man may live
anywhere. |
| The wise man never says "I did
not think". |
| Wise man care not for
what they cannot have. |
| The wise man doesn't
tell what he does, but never does what cannot be told. |
| The wise man never
says "I did not think". |
| When the wise man
makes an arm of this tongue, he makes it a shield and not a sword.
|
| The wish is father to
the thought. |
| If you have nothing to do, be
a witness. |
| He who cannot have
what he would like should like what he can have. |
| He who doesn´t look
ahead remains behind. |
| He who has no shame
before the world has no fear before God |
| Words have no
boundaries. |
| Everyone is the son of his own
works. |
