More French Proverbs

The gown does not make the monk.... >>

A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.... >>

He that is ashamed to eat is ashamed to live.... >>

Arrange your cloak as the wind blows.... >>

Fear is a great inventor.... >>

Other Proverbs

Much coin, much care.... (Latin) >>

When the sun is highest it casts the least shadow.... (Italian) >>

All's lost that's put in a riven dish.... (Spanish) >>

The enemy of my enemy is my friend... (Benjamin Franklin) >>

The stone is hard and the drop is small, but a hole is made ... (Spanish) >>

Give me the rhubarb and you may take the senna.

- French Proverb