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Better to stumble once than be always tottering.
(French Proverb)
At the wars as they do at the wars.
(French Proverb)
An old ape never made a pretty grimace.
(French Proverb)
After the daughter is married, then come sons-in-law in plenty.
(French Proverb)
A thing too much seen is little prized.
(French Proverb)
A party of one alone is not a party.
(French Proverb)
A man may cause his own dog to bite him.
(French Proverb)
A jackfish does more than a letter of recommendation.
(French Proverb)
A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.
(French Proverb)
A girl without a friend is like the spring without roses.
(French Proverb)
A dog with a docked tail is not afraid that its backside can be seen.
(French Proverb)
A churl knows not the work of spurs (i.e., honour).
(French Proverb)
Don't find fault with what you don't understand.
(French Proverb)
Greater qualities are needed to bear good fortune than bad.
(French Proverb)
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
(French Proverb)
Fortune can take from us only what she has given us.
(French Proverb)
Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.
(French Proverb)
Every mother-in-law is a piece of the devil's pants.
(French Proverb)
Don't speak to the man at the helm.
(French Proverb)
By working in the smithy one becomes a smith.
(French Proverb)
Better to have a friend on the road than gold and silver in your purse.
(French Proverb)
At Shrove-tide every one had need of his frying-pan.
(French Proverb)
An enemy may chance to give good counsel.
(French Proverb)
After a feast a man scratches his head.
(French Proverb)
A surgeon should be young a physician old.
(French Proverb)
A noble prince or king never has a coin to bless himself.
(French Proverb)
A man may bear till his back breaks.
(French Proverb)
A hungry dog is not afraid of a cudgelling.
(French Proverb)
A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.
(French Proverb)
A gentlemen of Beauce who stays in bed till his breeches are mended.
(French Proverb)
A dealer in onions is a good judge of scallions.
(French Proverb)
A cake eaten in peace, is worth two in trouble.
(French Proverb)
Great thieves always have their sleeves full of gags.
(French Proverb)
God is on the side of the strongest battalions.
(French Proverb)
Don't show your teeth if you can't bite.
(French Proverb)
Fair, good, rich, and wise, is a woman four stories high.
(French Proverb)
Every one knows best where the shoe pinches him.
(French Proverb)
Don't snap your fingers at the dogs before you are out of the village.
(French Proverb)
By telling our woes we often assuage them.
(French Proverb)
Better the second husband of a widow than the first.
(French Proverb)
At borrowing cousin german, at repaying son of a whore.
(French Proverb)
An easy shepherd makes the wolf void wool.
(French Proverb)
Africa is a cold land where the sun is warm.
(French Proverb)
A Sunday's child never dies of the plague.
(French Proverb)
A mother can more easily feed seven children than seven children can feed one mother.
(French Proverb)
A man know's no more to any purpose than he practises.
(French Proverb)
A hundred years of fretting will not pay a halfpenny of debt.
(French Proverb)
A good swimmer is not safe against drowning.
(French Proverb)
A galled horse will not endure the comb.
(French Proverb)
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
(French Proverb)
A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken.
(French Proverb)
Grease a churl's boots and he'll say you are burning them.
(French Proverb)
God helps three sorts of people: fools, children and drunkards.
(French Proverb)
For some of us happiness comes while we sleep.
(French Proverb)
Fair is he that comes, but fairer he that brings.
(French Proverb)
Every one has a fool in his sleeve.
(French Proverb)
Don't slaughter more pigs than you can salt.
(French Proverb)
By dint of going wrong all will come right.
(French Proverb)
Better bread in the basket than a feather in your cap.
(French Proverb)
At a little fountain one drinks at one's ease.
(French Proverb)
An ass does not stumble twice over the same stone.
(French Proverb)
Absent, none without blame; present, none without excuse.
(French Proverb)
A sparrow in the hand is better than a crane on the wing.
(French Proverb)
A Montgomery division: all on one side, nothing on the other.
(French Proverb)
A man is valued according to his own estimate of himself.
(French Proverb)
A hundred years is not much, but never is a long while.
(French Proverb)
A good repast ought to begin with hunger.
(French Proverb)
A galled horse does not care to be curried.
(French Proverb)
A dead man has neither relations nor friends.
(French Proverb)
A brain is worth little without a tongue.
(French Proverb)
Gratitude is the least of virtues, but ingratitude the worst of vices.
(French Proverb)
God gives the cold according to the cloth.
(French Proverb)
For sake of the knight the lady kisses the squire.
(French Proverb)
Fair flowers do not remain long by the wayside.
(French Proverb)
Every one draws the water to his own mill.
(French Proverb)
Don't shut the barn door after the horse is stolen.
(French Proverb)
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
(French Proverb)
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
(French Proverb)
At a bridge, a plank, a river, the servant foremost, the master behind.
(French Proverb)
An apple, an egg, and a nut, You may eat after a slut.
(French Proverb)
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