More French Proverbs

To compare is not to prove.... >>

To give tardily is to refuse.... >>

Trade follows the flag.... >>

To scare a bird is not the way to catch it.... >>

The candle that goes before, is better than that which comes after.... >>

Other Proverbs

Deeds are love, and not fine phrases.... (Spanish) >>

Steel whets steel.... (Spanish) >>

He has much to do who would please everybody.... (Spanish) >>

What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.... (Spanish) >>

Everybody's friends and nobody's friend is all one.... (Spanish) >>

A hungry dog will eat dirty pudding.

- French Proverb