1032 Portuguese Proverbs / Page 49
961.
What is marriage, mother? Daughter, it is spinning, bearing children, and weeping.962.
What the eyes don't see the heart doesn't feel.963.
What the fool does at last the wise man does at first.964.
What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.965.
What water gives, water takes away.966.
What's everybody's work is nobody's work.967.
When bulls fight, woe to the frogs.968.
When it is in an unlucky phase, the vulture below, shits on the vulture above.969.
When the alms is too large, even a saint will be suspicious.970.
When the cat's away the mice will play.971.
When the cucumber is small, you can warp it easier.972.
When the old dog barks, he gives counsel.973.
When the ox falls, there are many that will help to kill him.974.
When the wine is in, the wit is out.975.
When thieves fall out, their knaveries come to light.976.
Where friends, there riches.977.
Where shall the ox go but he must labour, since he knows how?978.
Where shall the ox go, and not have to plough?979.
Where the cock is the hen does not crow.980.
Where the river is deepest it makes the least noise.