Drop by drop the lake is drained.
More French Proverbs:
What the gauntlet wins the gorget consumes.French
One is rated by others as he rates himself.
French
He that hath a wife is sure of strife.
French
There's virtue in a man's face.
French
A good man is a man of goods.
French
Two sparrows on the same ear of corn are not long friends.
French