French Proverbs (2056 Proverbs)
- A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
(French Proverb)
- Choose a wife with your ears, not your eyes.
(French Proverb)
- He is a horse with four white feet.
(French Proverb)
- If you want to totally avoid being deceived, get married on February 30th.
(French Proverb)
- Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
(French Proverb)
- Paris wasn't made in a day.
(French Proverb)
- The friendship of a great man is like the shadow of a bush -- soon gone.
(French Proverb)
- The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
(French Proverb)
- Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
(French Proverb)
- Women will believe any lie that is wrapped in praise.
(French Proverb)
- A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.
(French Proverb)
- A word to the wise.
(French Proverb)
- Comparison is not necessarily proof.
(French Proverb)
- He that will bare-foot go must not plant a garden of thistle.
(French Proverb)
- Ignorance and incuriosity are two very soft pillows.
(French Proverb)
- Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.
(French Proverb)
- Partir, c'est mourir un peu.
(French Proverb)
- The future belongs to the man who rises early.
(French Proverb)
- The sweetest grapes are picked from the vineyard of friendship.
(French Proverb)
- We must learn from life how to suffer it.
(French Proverb)
- Write injuries in dust, But kindnesses in marble.
(French Proverb)
- A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.
(French Proverb)
- All cats are bad in May.
(French Proverb)
- Don't imitate the fly before you have wings.
(French Proverb)
- He that will get the better of a fox must rise early.
(French Proverb)
- Ingratitude is a kind of weakness; the clever are never ungrateful.
(French Proverb)
- Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.
(French Proverb)
- Patience is bitter but its fruits are sweet.
(French Proverb)
- The great thieves lead away the little thieves.
(French Proverb)
- The tulip is, among flowers, what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent, a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb, the other in its tail.
(French Proverb)
- Well knows the cats whose ear she licks.
(French Proverb)
- You need to break the shell in order to have the almond.
(French Proverb)
- A churl knows not the work of spurs.
(French Proverb)
- All of the Earth's treasures can't bring back a lost moment.
(French Proverb)
- Every bee's honey is sweet.
(French Proverb)
- He who curbs his desires will always be rich enough.
(French Proverb)
- Io get what we want, we must accept some things we don't want. No rose without a thorn.
(French Proverb)
- No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.
(French Proverb)
- Patience is bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
(French Proverb)
- The horse that draws most is most whipped.
(French Proverb)
- The wolf knows what the ill beats thinks.
(French Proverb)
- What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave.
(French Proverb)
- Young men forgive, old men never.
(French Proverb)
- A fault that is denied once is committed twice.
(French Proverb)
- All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment.
(French Proverb)
- Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks.
(French Proverb)
- He who gives to the poor loans to God.
(French Proverb)
- It is better to be the first on one's race than the last.
(French Proverb)
- No person is too old to learn.
(French Proverb)
- Possession is nine tenths of the law.
(French Proverb)
- The interested friend is a swallow on the roof.
(French Proverb)
- There are fagots and fagots.
(French Proverb)
- What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bees.
(French Proverb)
- A healthy woman is a successful woman.
(French Proverb)
- Autumn is the hush before winter.
(French Proverb)
- Fortune is blind, but not invisible.
(French Proverb)
- He who grasps at too much loses everything.
(French Proverb)
- It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.
(French Proverb)
- Nothing dries so fast as tears.
(French Proverb)
- Ravens do not peck out raven's eyes.
(French Proverb)
- The mill does not grind with water that is past.
(French Proverb)
- There is no pot so bad but finds it cover.
(French Proverb)
- What is true by firelight is not always true by daylight.
(French Proverb)
- A hundred years a banner, a hundred years a barrow.
(French Proverb)
- Bear wealth, poverty will bear itself.
(French Proverb)
- Friends are lost by calling too often and by not calling often enough.
(French Proverb)
- He who grasps too much holds not firmly.
(French Proverb)
- It is by forging that one becomes a blacksmith.
(French Proverb)
- Nothing is given as easily as advice.
(French Proverb)
- Remember that everyone you ever meet is sure to fear something, to love something, and to have lost something.
(French Proverb)
- The monk responds as the abbot chants.
(French Proverb)
- There is one who kisses, and the other who offers the cheek.
(French Proverb)
- What! No star, and you are going out to sea? Marching, and you have no music? Traveling, and you have no book? What! No love, and you are going out to live?
(French Proverb)
- A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
(French Proverb)
- Bear with evil and expect good.
(French Proverb)
- Garlic by the savour, bread by the colour.
(French Proverb)
- He who survives will see the outcome.
(French Proverb)
- It is overdoing the thing to die of love.
(French Proverb)
- One day is as good as two for the person who does everything in its place.
(French Proverb)
- Repentance costs dear.
(French Proverb)
More French Proverbs (Based on Topics)
Man - Love - Fool - Money & Wealth - Woman - Devils - Friendship - Dogs - God - Water - Youth - Time - Wine - Fire - People - Wisdom & Knowledge - Horse - Marriage - Cats - View All French Proverbs
Buy books and product about French @ Amazon