Better walk before a hen than behind an ox.
More French Proverbs:
Who could live without hope?French
A hundred years a banner, a hundred years a barrow. [Signifying the changeful fortunes of great feudal families.]
French
Nothing is more contagious than a bad example.
French
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.
French
He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut.
French
Something is better than nothing.
French