The wolf is not as big as people make him.
More French Proverbs:
He that rewards flattery, begs it.French
What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.
French
Every man to his taste.
French
Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
French
Naught venture, naught have.
French
It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.
French