More French Proverbs

In the forehead and the eye The lecture of the mind doth lie.... >>

Half figs, half raisins.... >>

Great disputing repels truth.... >>

By writing we learn to write.... >>

Don't talk Latin before the Franciscans.... >>

Other Proverbs

Knock on wood.... (English) >>

An oak is not felled at one stroke.... (Spanish) >>

A fool, unless he know Latin, is never a great fool.... (Spanish) >>

An inch in a sword, or a palm in a lance, is a great advanta... (Spanish) >>

As is the master, so is his dog.... (Spanish) >>

An enemy may chance to give good counsel.

- French Proverb