One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.
More French Proverbs:
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.French
He is like a singed cat, better than he looks.
French
Everything comes to the man who does not need it.
French
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
French
He who holds the handle of the frying-pan turns it as he pleases.
French
He that takes too great a leap falls into the ditch.
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