More French Proverbs

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.... >>

The old monkey gets the apple.... >>

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.... >>

No jesting with edged tools.... >>

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.... >>

Other Proverbs

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercep... (Dutch) >>

After breaking my head you bring plaister.... (Spanish) >>

Fools and the perverse fill the lawyers'purse.... (Spanish) >>

He who does not mix with the crowd knows nothing.... (Spanish) >>

He is your friend who gets you out of a fray.... (Spanish) >>

Dress slowly when you are in a hurry.

- French Proverb