Famous Proverbs
1033 Proverbs about Portuguese / Page 28
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If you laugh to-day, you will cry to-morrow.272.
If you want clear water, draw it from the spring.273.
If you want to be served, serve yourself.274.
If you would be a good judge, hear what every one says.275.
If you would be happy for a week take a wife; if you would be happy for a month kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life plant a garden.276.
If you would be healthy, be sage betimes.277.
If you would be in good repute, let not the sun find you in bed.278.
If you would grow poor without perceiving it, employ workmen and go to sleep.279.
Ill befal the belly that forgets eaten bread.280.
Ill fares the young bird in the urchin's hand.