Portuguese Proverb Quotations

I would rather have a donkey that takes me there than a horse that will not fare.

He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause

When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.

There is a remedy for everything; it is called death

Words are made of silver, but silence is made of gold.

Beware of the door with too many keys

Beware of a man that does not talk and a dog that does not bark

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure

Better a red face than a black heart

If you have no enemies, then fortune passed you by

A bad knife cuts one's finger instead of the stick

An old man in love is like a flower in winter

A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel

The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread