Portuguese Proverb Quotations

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

There is a remedy for everything; it is called death

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.

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

Better a red face than a black heart

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

Beware of the door with too many keys

An old man in love is like a flower in winter

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

If you have no enemies, then fortune passed you by

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

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