1032 Portuguese Proverbs / Page 36
701. Rome and Pavia weren't built in a day.
702. Rosary is hand, the devil at heart.
703. Running by one's will never gets tired.
704. Saints appear to fools.
705. Saints don't fill the belly.
706. Seat yourself in your place, and they will not make you rise.
707. Send a man of sense on the embassy, and you need not instruct him.
708. Serve a lord, and you will know what it is to be vexed.
709. She is well married who has neither mother-in-law nor sister-in-law.
710. She stoops to conquer.
711. Short reckonings make long friends.
712. Show me a poor man, I will show you a flatterer.
713. Shut your door, and you will make your neighbour good.
714. Shut your mouth and you'll catch no flies.
715. Silence is golden.
716. Sloth is the key to poverty.
717. Sloth is the mother of poverty.
718. Slow but sure.
719. Slow help is no help.
720. Slowly one goes far.