More French Proverbs

God save you from a man who has but one business.... >>

He, who more than he is worth doth spend, E'en makes a rope, his life ... >>

Fair things are soon snatched away.... >>

In the forehead and the eye The lecture of the mind doth lie.... >>

He puts his sickle into another man's harvest.... >>

Other Proverbs

A fifth wheel to a cart is but an encumbrance.... (Spanish) >>

Keep may out, keep death out.... (English) >>

Michael is quits; he lost a ducat and gained a rabbit.... (Spanish) >>

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason... (Italian) >>

Alas! father, another daughter is born to you.... (Spanish) >>

A hundred years is not much, but never is a long while.

- French Proverb