More French Proverbs

Avarice is never satisfied.... >>

One may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge.... >>

The listener makes the backbiter.... >>

One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for a birth.... >>

Rebukes ought not to have a grain more of salt than of sugar.... >>

Other Proverbs

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.... (Spanish) >>

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.... (Spanish) >>

Hours are Time's shafts, <BR>and one comes winged with death... (Benjamin Franklin) >>

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before... (Romanian) >>

A great leap gives a great shake.... (Spanish) >>

Hatred watches while friendship sleeps.

- French Proverb