More French Proverbs

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.... >>

He wears the mourning of his washerwoman.... >>

A galled horse does not care to be curried.... >>

He was born with a caul.... >>

In the end it will be known who ate the bacon.... >>

Other Proverbs

Don't fall before you're pushed... (Philippine) >>

We are all Adam's children, but silk makes the difference.... (English) >>

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the floc... (Chinese) >>

An old loan repaid is like finding something new.... (Russian) >>

To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fair... (Latin) >>

He has enough who is content.

- French Proverb