More French Proverbs

Paris was not built in a day.... >>

Be truly what thou wouldst be thought to be.... >>

An eel escapes from a good fisherman.... >>

He was born on a Sunday, he likes work ready done.... >>

He who marries for love has good nights and bad days.... >>

Other Proverbs

The girl as she is taught, the flax as it is wrought.... (Spanish) >>

Time heals all wounds.... (American) >>

They two agreed like two cats in a gutter.... (Spanish) >>

Whilst the nurse suckles, we love her; when she is of no fur... (Spanish) >>

Take a hair of the dog that has bitten you.... (English) >>

An apple, an egg, and a nut, You may eat after a slut.

- French Proverb