1032 Portuguese Proverbs / Page 43
841.
The rat does not leave the cat's house with a bellyful.842.
The rat that knows but one hole is soon caught.843.
The rat which has but one hole is soon caught.844.
The righteous pays for the sinner.845.
The ripest fruit will not fall into your mouth.846.
The rivers flow to the ocean.847.
The savage ox grows tame on strange ground.848.
The sheep that bleats loses a mouthful.849.
The son-in-law's sack is never full.850.
The sooner begun, the sooner done.851.
The sooty oven mocks the black chimney.852.
The Sun rises for everybody.853.
The swindler readily cheats the covetous man.854.
The sword and the ring according to the hand that bears them.855.
The tailor ill-dressed, the shoemaker ill-shod.856.
The thief becomes the gallows well.857.
The thief proceeds from a needle to gold, and from gold to the gallows.858.
The thief thinks that all are like himself.859.
The thief who steals another one is forgiven for 100 years.860.
The tired mare goes willingly to grass.