More French Proverbs

One may as well be well beaten as badly beaten.... >>

Trickery comes back to its master.... >>

Who cannot work out his salvation by heart will not do it by book.... >>

To get the chicks one must coax the hen.... >>

To see it rain is better than to be in it.... >>

Other Proverbs

True love suffers no concealment.... (Spanish) >>

Cheese from the ewe, milk from the goat, butter from the cow... (Spanish) >>

Peralvillo justice: hang a man first and try him afterwards.... (Spanish) >>

Leave the jest at its best.... (Spanish) >>

Fancy surpasses beauty.... (Spanish) >>

Fair, good, rich, and wise, is a woman four stories high.

- French Proverb