French Proverbs on Man (96 Proverbs)

Cats like man are flatterers.
(French Proverb)
Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
(French Proverb)
The friendship of a great man is like the shadow of a bush -- soon gone.
(French Proverb)
The future belongs to the man who rises early.
(French Proverb)
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
(French Proverb)
To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a man live years ten times ten.
(French Proverb)
A wise man may learn of a fool.
(French Proverb)
A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a girl.
(French Proverb)
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
(French Proverb)
A man may cause his own dog to bite him.
(French Proverb)
A man may bear till his back breaks.
(French Proverb)
A man is valued according to his own estimate of himself.
(French Proverb)
A man is no happier than he thinks himself.
(French Proverb)
God save you from a man who has but one business.
(French Proverb)
A good man is a man of goods.
(French Proverb)
Everything comes to the man who does not need it.
(French Proverb)
A good burgundy does a lot for women, especially when men drink it.
(French Proverb)
Every wise man is afraid of a fool.
(French Proverb)
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
(French Proverb)
Don't speak to the man at the helm.
(French Proverb)
Do not lend your money to a great man.
(French Proverb)
Could a man foresee events he would never be poor.
(French Proverb)
Between promising and giving a man should marry his daughter.
(French Proverb)
As the man is worth his land is worth.
(French Proverb)
After a feast a man scratches his head.
(French Proverb)
When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.
(French Proverb)
Take an ox by his horn, a man by his word.
(French Proverb)
It is in vain for a man to rise early who has the repute of lying in bed all the morning.
(French Proverb)
Two men may meet, but never two mountains.
(French Proverb)
Smoke, floods, and a troublesome wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.
(French Proverb)
In the kingdom of the blind men, those who are blessed with one eye are kings.
(French Proverb)
To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine.
(French Proverb)
Riches serve a wise man, but command a fool.
(French Proverb)
If you want to understand men, study women.
(French Proverb)
To know a man well one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him.
(French Proverb)
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
(French Proverb)
If you give a gift to a rich man, the devil sniggers.
(French Proverb)
There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.
(French Proverb)
No man is a prophet in his own country.
(French Proverb)
If a man would learn to pray let him go often to sea.
(French Proverb)
There's nothing like being bespattered for making a man defy the gutter.
(French Proverb)
No man is a hero in the eyes of his valet.
(French Proverb)
He who has his purse full preaches to the poor man.
(French Proverb)
The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.
(French Proverb)
Never send a boy to do a man's job.
(French Proverb)
Happy is the man who has a handsome wife close to an abbey.
(French Proverb)
The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.
(French Proverb)
Naught must disturb a man of worth at dinner.
(French Proverb)
The more a man exposes his nakedness the colder he is.
(French Proverb)
Men's skins have many colors, but human blood is always red.
(French Proverb)
The longer the way, the more tired the man.
(French Proverb)
Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.
(French Proverb)
The friendship of great men is like the shadow of a bush, soon gone.
(French Proverb)
Men will only throw stones at trees that are laden with fruit.
(French Proverb)
The Emperor of Germany is the king of kings, the King of Spain king of men, the King of France king of asses, the King of England king of devils.
(French Proverb)
Men eat fish -- thanks to the sauce.
(French Proverb)
The early man never borrows from the late man.
(French Proverb)
Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
(French Proverb)
When a man's friend marries, all is over between them.
(French Proverb)
The cart ruins the road, the woman the man, the water the wine.
(French Proverb)
Man is the only mammal that can be skinned more than once.
(French Proverb)
When a man stops thinking he stops feeling.
(French Proverb)
The best thing about a man is his dog.
(French Proverb)
Man is preceded by forest and followed by desert.
(French Proverb)
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
(French Proverb)
The beauty of a woman does not make a man richer.
(French Proverb)
Man is fire, woman is tow, and the devil comes and blows.
(French Proverb)
You have to be rich to be able to live like a poor man.
(French Proverb)
When there is no wind every man is a pilot.
(French Proverb)
So many men, so many minds.
(French Proverb)
The maxims of men disclose their hearts.
(French Proverb)
There's virtue in a man's face.
(French Proverb)
Learning is there for every man.
(French Proverb)
Men are rare.
(French Proverb)
Men make laws; women make morals.
(French Proverb)
Nine tailors make a man.
(French Proverb)
No moon, no man.
(French Proverb)
One man, no man.
(French Proverb)
Only great men may have great faults.
(French Proverb)
Repute hangs a man.
(French Proverb)

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