More French Proverbs

Popularity is the small change of glory.... >>

Write injuries in the sand, kindnesses in marble.... >>

Patience is the virtue of asses.... >>

Slanderers are the devil's bellows, to blow up contention.... >>

Poverty is not a vice.... >>

Other Proverbs

A hundred years hence we shall all be bald.... (Spanish) >>

It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fis... (Spanish) >>

He who loves well is slow to forget.... (Spanish) >>

He that stirs honey will have some of it stick to him.... (Spanish) >>

Praise yourself, basket, for I want to sell you.... (Spanish) >>

At Shrove-tide every one had need of his frying-pan.

- French Proverb