More French Proverbs

One can't make head or tail of it.... >>

A favour ill placed is great waste.... >>

Another's misfortune is only a dream.... >>

A hawk's marriage: the hen is the better bird.... >>

A galled horse does not care to be curried.... >>

Other Proverbs

Where there's fire there's smoke.... (Spanish) >>

One stroke on the nail and a hundred on the horseshoe.... (Spanish) >>

Make way for a madman and a bull.... (Spanish) >>

He who measures oil greases his hands.... (Spanish) >>

He who peeps through a hole will discover his dole.... (Spanish) >>

A woman conceals only what she does not know.

- French Proverb