1032 Portuguese Proverbs / Page 46
901. Though we may pluck flowers by the way we may not sleep among flowers.
902. Though your mastiff be gentle, do not bite his lip.
903. Threads do not break for being fine, but for being gouty and ill-spun.
904. Threatened folks eat bread.
905. Three brothers, three fortresses.
906. Three or four daily will bring you to the bottom of the sack.
907. Throw that bone to another dog.
908. Throwing your cap at a bird is not the way to catch it.
909. Time and the hour are not to be tied with a rope.
910. Time is money.
911. Times passes like the wind.
912. Times tries a'.
913. To a hasty question a leisurely answer.
914. To be slow in giving ant to refuse, are alike.
915. To change one's habits has a smell of death.
916. To change one's habits smacks of death.
917. To eat and to itch is in the beggining.
918. To err is human; to forgive is divine.
919. To give is honour, to beg is dishonour.
920. To lather an ass's head is only wasting soap.