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 cross your bridges
before you get to them.
(don't worry about future
problems before you need to)
Don’t count your chickens
before they are hatched.
(don't start making plans for
something until it is a reality, rather than a pleasant speculation)
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.
No gains without pains. (trabalho)
He gives twice who gives without delay.
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.
All good things come to those
who wait.
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.
