1032 Portuguese Proverbs / Page 44
861.
The tongue goes to the aching tooth.862.
The treason approved, the traitor abhorred.863.
The wine-skin has its reasons for smelling of pitch.864.
The wolf eats of what is counted.865.
The wolf is well pleased with the kick of a sheep.866.
The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclination.867.
The wolf never wants a pretext against the lamb.868.
The worst blind is that who doesn't want to see.869.
The worst pig eats the best acorn.870.
The worth of a thing is what it will bring.871.
The wrath of brothers is the wrath of devils.872.
There are bad things that come for the good.873.
There are ills that happen for good.874.
There are many ways to leave this world but only one way to come into it.875.
There die as many lambs as wethers.876.
There is a remedy for everything; it is called death.877.
There is never wanting a dog to bark at you.878.
There is no day without its night.879.
There is no pleasure that does not pall, the more so if it costs nothing.880.
There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.