More French Proverbs

The merchant that loses cannot laugh.... >>

One is never soiled but by filth.... >>

Shoemakers are always the worst shod.... >>

Princes keep good reckoning, they never lose anything.... >>

The beadle of the parish is always of the vicar's opinion.... >>

Other Proverbs

Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky.... (Russian) >>

A maid who laughs is half taken.... (English) >>

We are not yet roasting, and already we make sops in the pan... (Spanish) >>

With lightning and with love, the clothes sound, the heart b... (Spanish) >>

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.... (Spanish) >>

All state, and nothing on the plate.

- French Proverb