French Proverbs (2056 Proverbs)
- He who can give has many a good neighbour.
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- He that stays in the valley will not get over the hill.
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- He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
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- He looks for his ass and sits on its back.
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- He is a horse with four white feet (i.e., he is unlucky).
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- He does a good day's work who rids himself of a fool.
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- When one has not what one likes, one must like what one has.
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- What the sober man keeps in his heart, is on the tongue of the drunkard.
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- Weather, wind, women, and fortune change like the moon.
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- Twixt the word and the deed there's a long step.
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- Too keen an edge does not cut, too fine a point does not pierce.
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- To heaven for the music but to hell for a good conversation.
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- There's not enough if there's not too much.
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- There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.
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- There is no bush so small but casts its shadow.
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- The wolf is not as big as people make him.
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- The servant of the devil does more than is asked for.
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- The mountaineer's ass carries wine and drinks water.
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- The interested friend is a swallow on the roof. (Prepared to leave at the approach of winter.)
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- The Fox's wiles will never enter the lion's head.
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- The ear is the road to the heart.
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- The cart ruins the road, the woman the man, the water the wine.
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- The bagpipe never utters a work till its belly is full.
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- Take away my good name, take away my life.
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- Smoke, floods, and a troublesome wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.
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- Riches serve a wise man, but command a fool.
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- People who have bread to eat do not appreciate the severity of a famine.
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- One never gets more than one's money's worth of anything.
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- One hour's sleep before midnight is better than three after it.
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- One bad general is better than two good ones.
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- Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk.
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- No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
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- Naught must disturb a man of worth at dinner.
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- Marriages sealed with rings end with drawn knives.
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- Life is half spent before one knows what life is.
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- It will not do to keep holidays before they come.
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- It is not the burden but the over-burden that kills the beast.
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- It is easy to go on foot if you are holding your horse by the rein.
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- In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears.
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- If you want to love your household as much as your bread then you will have to knead your wife like dough.
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- If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you.
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- He, who more than he is worth doth spend, E'en makes a rope, his life to end.
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- He who sees leather cut asks for a thong.
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- He who is waiting for someone else's bowl often dines late.
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- He who has a head of wax must not go near the fire.
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- He who bestirs himself sucks up, he who lies still dries up.
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- He that spends more than he is worth spins a rope for his own neck.
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- He that corrects not youth, controls not age.
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- He knows enough who knows how to live and keep his own counsel.
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- He is a great fool who forgets himself.
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- He carries fire in one hand, water in the other.
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- When the miller is also the mayor, there are two thieves in one pair of trousers.
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- When he was fifteen the devil was a good looking boy.
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- What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
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- We shall see, as the blind man said.
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- Unless Hell is full, no lawyer will ever be saved.
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- To whom do you offer your shells for sale? To people who come from Saint Michel (where shells abound).
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- To grow rich one has only to turn his back on God.
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- Though the fool waits, the day does not.
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- There is one who kisses, and the other offers a cheek.
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- There is many a slip twixt cup and lip.
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- The wit one wants spoils what one has.
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- The secret of two is God's secret, the secret of three is everybody's secret.
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- The most friendly fortune trips up your heels.
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- The highest branch is not the safest roost.
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- 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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