More French Proverbs

He asks advice in vain who will not follow it.... >>

For one pleasure a thousand pains.... >>

God alone understands fools.... >>

He has a good pledge of the cat who has her skin.... >>

He is not escaped who drags his chain.... >>

Other Proverbs

Even if an ass goes travelling he'll not come home a horse.... (English) >>

Seven is company, and nine confusion. (Alluding to a dinner ... (Spanish) >>

The mother who spoils her child, fattens a serpent.... (Spanish) >>

Silence and look out, we shall catch both hen and chicks.... (Spanish) >>

Let them be birds. (Small eggs make little soup.)... (Spanish) >>

Courting and wooing brings dallying and doing.

- French Proverb