More French Proverbs

A sow prefers bran to roses.... >>

The early bird catches the worm.... >>

If you would understand men, study women.... >>

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.... >>

A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.... >>

Other Proverbs

Every one feels the cold according as he is clad.... (Spanish) >>

Three men helping one another will do as much as six men sin... (Spanish) >>

The crow went travelling abroad and came home just as black.... (English) >>

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf... (Jewish) >>

There is no tax upon lying.... (Spanish) >>

At a bridge, a plank, a river, the servant foremost, the master behind.

- French Proverb