More French Proverbs

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One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than with twenty casks... >>

Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll not steal when he's old.... >>

Examine what is said, not him who speaks... >>

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

Other Proverbs

He who does not repair his gutter has a whole house to repai... (Spanish) >>

Better lose a supper than have a hundred physicians.... (Spanish) >>

A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years.... (Russian) >>

No woman is ugly when she is dressed.... (Spanish) >>

He who eats and puts by, has sufficient for two meals.... (Spanish) >>

Good comes to better, and better to bad.

- French Proverb