More French Proverbs

What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks... >>

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.... >>

Men's skins have many colors, but human blood is always red.... >>

In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears.... >>

If you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned.... >>

Other Proverbs

Do not buy a carrier's ass, or marry an innkeeper's daughter... (Spanish) >>

Adversity flatters no man.... (English) >>

For all one's early rising, it dawns none the sooner.... (Spanish) >>

Him who errs, forgive once, but never twice.... (Spanish) >>

Cleanliness is next to godliness.... (Spanish) >>

Fine and fine make but a slender doublet.

- French Proverb