1032 Portuguese Proverbs / Page 48
- 471. 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.
 - 472. If you would be healthy, be sage betimes.
- 473. If you would be in good repute, let not the sun find you in bed.
- 474. If you would grow poor without perceiving it, employ workmen and go to sleep.
- 475. If you would have the dog follow you, give him bread.
- 476. If you would make an enemy, lend a man money, and ask for it back again.
- 477. Ill befal the belly that forgets eaten bread.
- 478. Ill fares the young bird in the urchin's hand.
- 479. Ill weeds are not hurt by frost.
- 480. In a breadless home, everyone complains and nobody is right.
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