More French Proverbs

The leaves fall before the tree dies.... >>

He knows enough who knows how to live and keep his own counsel.... >>

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.... >>

He who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all.... >>

Grease a churl's boots and he'll say you are burning them.... >>

Other Proverbs

Three daughters and their mother, four devils for the father... (Spanish) >>

Man is fire, woman is tow; the devil comes with a bellows.... (Spanish) >>

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.... (Spanish) >>

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.... (Spanish) >>

Lose no rights, and commit no extortions.... (Spanish) >>

A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.

- French Proverb