More French Proverbs

One often has need of a lesser than oneself.... >>

Smoke, floods, and a troublesome wife, are enough to drive a man out o... >>

Paris was not built in a day.... >>

Pulling the devil by the tail does not lead far young or old.... >>

No one will get a bargain he does not ask for.... >>

Other Proverbs

I thought to cross myself, and I put out my eye.... (Spanish) >>

Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.... (Spanish) >>

The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor.... (Spanish) >>

Cow of many, well milked and badly fed.... (Spanish) >>

Never put your thumbs between two grinders.... (Spanish) >>

Happy is the man who has a handsome wife close to an abbey.

- French Proverb