More French Proverbs

A man is valued according to his own estimate of himself.... >>

Who wishes to travel far spares his steed.... >>

Stolen bread stirs the appetite.... >>

No jesting with edged tools.... >>

One is never so rich as when one removes (from one house to another).... >>

Other Proverbs

Sour wine, old bacon, and rye bread keep a house rich.... (Spanish) >>

The mouth and the purse, shut.... (Spanish) >>

Let it be a husband, though it be but a log.... (Spanish) >>

I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had ... (Chinese) >>

Peter pinches me, and I like it.... (Spanish) >>

Be a horse ever so well shod, he may slip.

- French Proverb