French Proverbs (2056 Proverbs)
- No man is a hero in the eyes of his valet.
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- Most men employ the earlier part of their life to make the other miserable.
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- Many a one suffers for what he can't help.
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- Life is a dung pie from which you take a bite every day.
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- It is well to fly low on account of the branches.
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- It is not enough to run; one must start in time.
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- It is easier to climb down than up.
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- In the kingdom of the blind men, those who are blessed with one eye are kings.
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- If you lose your wife and fifteen pennies -- oh ! what a pity about the money.
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- If it only depends on swearing, the cow is ours.
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- He will not lose his oats for want of braying.
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- He who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all.
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- He who is near the Church is often far from God.
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- He who goes to collect wool may come back shorn.
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- He was slain that had warning, not he that took it.
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- He that reckons without his host must reckon again.
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- He sleeps securely who has nothing to lose.
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- He is the wisest man who does not think himself so.
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- He is a fool who makes a mallet of his fist.
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- He beat the bushes and another caught the birds.
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- When the kitchenmaids are together the roast burns.
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- When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.
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- What the colt learns in youth his continues in old age.
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- We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
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- Two sparrows upon one ear of corn make ill agreement.
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- To wash an ass's head is but loss of time and soap. (To reprove a fool is but lost labour.)
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- To go as fast as a friar that is invited to dinner.
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- Those who envy die, but envy stays alive.
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- There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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- There are no women or horses without shortcomings.
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- The wine is not known by the hoops.
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- The same heat that melts wax, bakes clay.
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- The more a man exposes his nakedness the colder he is.
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- The hen ought not to cackle in presence of the cock.
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- The fox that sleeps in the morning has not his tongue feathered.
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- The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
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- The bleating of the lamb merely arouses the tiger.
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- The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.
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- Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.
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- Small gifts maintain friendship, big ones maintain love.
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- Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.
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- People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
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- One may steal nothing save a lawyer's purse.
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- One good argument is worth more than ten better ones.
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- Old love and old brands kindle at all seasons.
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- Not every sort of wood is fit to make an arrow.
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- No lock will hold against the power of gold.
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- More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
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- Many a one is good because he can do no mischief.
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- Let not your shirt know your way of thinking.
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- It is too late to lock the stable door when the horse is stolen.
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- It is not enough to have cabbage, one must have something to grease it.
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- It is easier to abstain than to restrain.
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- In the forehead and the eye. The lecture of the mind doth lie.
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- If you live in Rome, don't quarrel with the Pope.
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- If a man would learn to pray let him go often to sea.
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- He who wishes to make a golden door drives a nail into it every day.
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- He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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- He who is master of his thirst is master of his health.
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- He who goes abroad by day has no need of a lantern.
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- He was born on a Sunday, he likes work ready done.
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- He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering.
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- He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it.
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- He is the more obstinate for being advised.
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- He has put all his eggs into one basket.
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- He asks advice in vain who will not follow it.
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- When the furze is in bloom, my love's in tune.
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- When God sends flour the devil carries off the sack.
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- What the child hears at the fireside is soon known at the parish church.
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- We must learn to walk before we can run.
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- Two sparrows on the same ear of corn are not long friends.
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- To want to forget something is to remember it.
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- To get the chicks one must coax the hen.
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- They will be hushed by a good deed who laugh at a wise speech.
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- There is no worse water than that which sleeps.
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- There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.
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- The wine given to your workmen is that for which you get the best paid.
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- The saint who works no cures has few pilgrims to his shrine.
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- The monk that begs for God's sake begs for two.
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- The head and feet keep warm; the rest will take no harm.
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