135 Sayings of Portuguese Origin
1. "Think of many things, do only one." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
2. "If you give orders and leave, the work won't get done." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
3. "Make the night night, and the day day, and you will have a pleasant time of it." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
4. "The mistress is queen, the wife is the slave." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
5. "Even the most beautiful sheets have small flaws." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
6. "Children tell in the highway what they hear by the fireside." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
7. "He who has nothing is afraid of nothing." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
8. "Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
9. "Keep your sickness until Friday and don't fast." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
10. "Spinner, spin softly, you disturb me. I am praying." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
11. "Rosary in the hand, and the devil in the heart." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
12. "Do not tell all that you know, don't believe all you hear, and don't do all that you can." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
13. "Mouth from honey, heart of gall." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
14. "If you want good advice, consult an old man." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
15. "He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
16. "Love, smoke and cough are hard to hide." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
17. "Good is the delay that makes sure." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
18. "Better a red face than a black heart." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
19. "Better to have friends in the marketplace than money in your coffers." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
20. "Women and glasses are always in danger." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
21. "A woman with two husbands cheats both." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
22. "Give a grateful man more than he asks for." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
23. "A rich widow weeps in one eye and laughs with the other." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
24. "Having need of makes the ugly beautiful." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
25. "No one is poor but he who thinks himself so." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
26. "Visits always give pleasure, if not at the arrival, then at the departure." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
27. "There are many ways to leave this world but only one way to come into it." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
28. "From a closed door the devil turns away." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
29. "Follow the road, and you will come to an inn." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
30. "The queen bee has no sting." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
31. "Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries as he has the luck." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
32. "He has a head, and so has a pin." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
33. "A loss not missed by your neighbor is not a real loss." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
34. "Beauty is a good letter of introduction." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
35. "Better just repair the gutter than the whole house." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
36. "There's a long way from saying to doing." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
37. "God has given nuts to some who have no teeth." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
38. "Do not think that one enemy is insignificant, or that a thousand friends are too many." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
39. "Every wine would like to be port wine." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
40. "Meowing cats catch fewer mice." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
41. "Love is friendship set on fire." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
42. "If you have a friend who is a doctor, then send him to your enemy's house." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
43. "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
44. "The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
45. "He buys very dear who begs." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
46. "Faith has no eyes; he who asks to see has no faith." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
47. "Do good and care not to whom." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
48. "Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
49. "He brooks no advice whose mind is made up." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
50. "Stumbling is not falling." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
51. "There is a remedy for everything; it is called death." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
52. "Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the foot." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
53. "Experience is the mother of wisdom." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
54. "Love has no law." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
55. "The gentle calf sucks all the cows." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
56. "The chicken that stays in the farmyard, will peck the crumbs." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
57. "To change one's habits has a smell of death." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
58. "Every one to his trade." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
59. "Better to be queen for an hour than a countess for life." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
60. "A tongue of honey, a heart of gall." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
61. "A contented ass enjoys a long life." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
62. "No one has seen to-morrow." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
63. "A bad neighbor will give you a needle with no thread." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
64. "One good word puts out the flames better than a bucket of water." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
65. "Pretend to be dead and the bull will leave you alone." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
66. "Change yourself, and your luck will change." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
67. "Where there is no might, right gets lost." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
68. "Beware of silent dogs and still waters." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
69. "Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
70. "Peace with a club in hand is war." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
71. "He doubts nothing who knows nothing." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
72. "Do as you may, if you can't do as you could." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
73. "There's no catching trout with dry breeches." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
74. "No one is a good judge of his own case." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
75. "A good mind possesses a kingdom." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
76. "Love one another and you will be happy; it is as simple and as difficult as that." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
77. "There is no rule without an exception." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
78. "Under fair words have a care of fraud." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
79. "Too many candles will burn down the church." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
80. "Good men and bad make a city." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
81. "Dear is cheap, and cheap is dear." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
82. "What is bought is cheaper than a gift." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
83. "A liar should have a good memory." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
84. "Women are always better the following year." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
85. "If you would make an enemy, lend a man money, and ask for it back again." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
86. "Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
87. "Thinking of where you are going, you forget from whence you came." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
88. "Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
89. "Don't quit the highway for a short cut." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
90. "The mouth that can say “Yea,” can say “Nay”." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
91. "Beware of a man that does not talk and a dog that does not bark." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
92. "Time, not medicine, cures the sick." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
93. "Charity begins at home." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
94. "Hell's roof is made from lost causes." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
95. "Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
96. "Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
97. "Be sure not to owe anything to the rich, and don't lend anything to the poor." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
98. "It dawns no sooner for one's early rising." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
99. "An old man in love is like a flower in winter." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
100. "Don't change horses in midstream." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
101. "Cobblers go to mass and pray that the cows may die." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
102. "Truth and oil come to the surface." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
103. "A busy mother makes slothful daughters." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
104. "If a poor man gives to you, he expects more in return." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
105. "a misfortune never comes alone." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
106. "Every peddler praises his own needles." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
107. "Truth should not be dressed up." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
108. "Birds of prey do not flock together." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
109. "Give me money, not advice." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
110. "A busy mother makes slothful daughters." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
111. "The life and love we create is the life and love we live." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
112. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
113. "Not much is achieved where everyone gives the orders." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
114. "I renounce the friend who eats what is mine with me, and what is his own by himself." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
115. "Sweet are the tears that are dried by your loved one." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
116. "An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
117. "Better wrong with the many than right with the few." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
118. "Everything has its time." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
119. "Live to live and you will learn to live." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
120. "Beware of the door with too many keys." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
121. "Let him who gives say nothing, and him who receives speak." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
122. "Thinking is not knowing." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
123. "Death makes us equal in the grave but not in eternity." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
124. "Good management is better than good income." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
125. "The accomplice is as bad as the thief." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
126. "Don't put money in your purse without checking it for holes." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
127. "He who serves two masters has to lie to one." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
128. "A girl, a vineyard and a bean field are difficult to guard." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
129. "A body that is well made needs no cloak." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
130. "It is better to receive awards that you don't deserve rather than deserve them and not receive them." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
131. "You have to suffer a lot or die young." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
132. "What was hard to bear is sweet to remember." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
133. "Marrying sounds well, but tastes ill." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
134. "There is no remedy for love but to love more." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
135. "A dog that barks much is never a good hunter." (Portuguese Sayings) Click to tweet
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