French Proverbs (2056 Proverbs)
- The fox thrives best when he is most cursed.
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- The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.
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- The candle that goes before, is better than that which comes after.
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- The bad man thinks that everybody looks like him.
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- Take an ox by his horn, a man by his word.
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- Small wells are better to quench your thirst.
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- Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.
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- People take more pains to be damned than to be saved.
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- One must talk soothingly to the dog until one has passed him.
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- One has always strength enough to bear the misfortunes of one's friends.
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- One always knocks oneself in the sore place.
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- Not until the tree is felled can you see how tall it was.
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- No man is a prophet in his own country.
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- Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can be cooked together but they will never be tender.
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- Many are esteemed, only because they are not known.
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- Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
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- It is well to leave off playing when the game is at its best.
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- It is not the big oxen that do the best day's work.
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- It is easier to get away from the back than the bottom.
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- In your own company no one is boss.
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- If you want to keep your credit you must use it as little as possible.
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- If it rains on the pastor it drops on the vicar.
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- He will not lost the parings of his nails.
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- He who rides on the giant's shoulders sees further than he who carries him.
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- He who is too proud to ask is too good to receive.
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- He who has a companion has a master.
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- He who begins and does not finish loses his labour.
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- He that repairs not a part, builds all.
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- He sups ill who eats up all at dinner.
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- He knocks boldly at the door who brings good news.
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- He is a fool who makes his physician his heir.
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- He cannot be a friend to any one who is his own enemy.
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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 shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.
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- There is nothing so well done but may be mended.
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- There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
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- The wise do as much as they should, not as much as they can.
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- The sea has an enormous thirst and an insatiable appetite.
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- The most covered fire is always the most glowing.
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- The higher the ape climbs the more he shows his rump.
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- The fox thinks everybody eats poultry like himself.
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- The dog gets into the mill under cover of the ass.
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- The bud becomes a rose and the rose a hip.
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- The ass that is common property is always the worst saddled.
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- Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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- Small profits are good if they come often.
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- Rich people never know who their friends are.
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- People make the bells say what they please.
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- One must step back to make the better leap.
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- One grows used to love and to fire.
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- One "take this" is worth more than two "you shall have."
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- Men's skins have many colors, but human blood is always red.
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- 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 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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