More French Proverbs

Leave the minster where it is.... >>

Give out that you have many friends, and believe that you have but few... >>

It is not the burden but the over-burden that kills the beast.... >>

Everything in time comes to him who knows how to wait.... >>

Flies will not light on a boiling pot.... >>

Other Proverbs

Under a good cloak may be a bad man.... (Spanish) >>

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue... (Spanish) >>

Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight... (Italian) >>

Before the time, great courage; when at the point, great fea... (Spanish) >>

A fool, unless he know Latin, is never a great fool.... (Spanish) >>

Everybody is wise after the thing has happened.

- French Proverb