Collection of Portuguese proverbs, sayings and popular sayings in Portugal translated into Italian, as testimony to the wisdom of this people of the Iberian Peninsula.
Portuguese idioms
- God free us from those who want us badly and speak well to us.
- The woman who forgives easily is already a rag.
- God helps those who wake up very early.
- In a long generation, there is the count and there is the thief.
- From afar comes the water to the mill.
- The woman with two souls always gives you one.
- To stop is to die.
- Man is fire, woman stops, the devil comes and blows.
- Ignorance and the wind are the most daring.
- The young woman lives with hope, the old woman with memories.
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- Begging does not impoverish.
- A man is lord of what he thinks and slave of what he says.
- To love and pray, no one can be forced.
- A house that does not house a dog or cat is an unhealthy house.
- God gives nuts to those who don't have teeth.
- Join the good guys and you'll be like them. Join the wicked and you will be worse than them.
- Everyone sees evil and good according to his eyes.
- The dog bitten everyone bites him.
- Belly full cheerful face.
- Do not rely on the egg when it is still inside the hen.
- The lazy man works twice.
- Mild calf sucks all cows.
Portuguese sayings
- God has more to give than the devil has to take away.
- The neighbor's hen is always better than mine.
- Men are made from children.
- From afar comes the water to the mill.
- If the fool is silent, he is considered wise.
- Command who can, obey who has judgment.
- The master gives orders to the young man, the young man to the cat, the cat to the tail.
- I prefer a donkey that brings me rather than a horse that drops me.
- Better to lose a minute in life than life in a minute.
- While the dogs fight, the wolf eats the sheep.
- There are a thousand ways to die and only one to be born.
- The master gives orders to the young man, the young man to the cat, the cat to the tail.
- Make the night, night; of the day day, and you will live with joy.
- Fearing death means dying twice.
- Presumptuousness is the mother of all nonsense.
- Without friends you cannot live.
- There are more ungrateful than shoes.
- Anyone with a glass roof does not throw stones at his neighbor.
- God wants, man dreams and the work is born.
- Do not take trout with dry breeches.
- God also writes straight on the crooked lines of men.
- Wrath and greed never let them be your companions.
Portuguese proverbs
- Of genius and madman, we all have some.
- The brave ox becomes meek in the land of others.
- From the discussion comes light.
- The future belongs to God.
- People see faces, but they don't see hearts.
- What sucks the bee becomes honey and what sucks the spider, poison.
- Remember, mother-in-law, that you were daughter-in-law.
- When declaring war, the devil enlarges hell.
- Happy reading, cure sadness.
- He who threatens exhausts his anger.
- Those who have friends are rich.
- Anyone who tells a story adds a comma to it.
- Word coming out of the mouth and stone thrown do not go back.
- Even those who are threatened eat bread.
- Do not take trout with dry breeches.
- I prefer a donkey that takes me to the horse that throws me away.
- The best cook is olive oil.
- Whoever sows thorns does not walk barefoot.
- A bad neighbor is worse than a caterpillar in the garden.
- To flee from judgment is to confess sin.
- God give me patience and a small cloth to wrap it.
- Where the master sleeps, the servants snore.
