More French Proverbs

It is just that the priest should live by the altar.... >>

The kettle smuts the frying-pan.... >>

At a bridge, a plank, a river, the servant foremost, the master behind... >>

A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.... >>

A good swordsman is never quarrelsome.... >>

Other Proverbs

In prosperity no altars smoke.... (Italian) >>

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your frien... (Latin) >>

If folly were a pain, there would be groaning in every house... (Spanish) >>

Silly sheep, where one goes, all go.... (Spanish) >>

He who dances well goes from wedding to wedding.... (Spanish) >>

He is a fool who makes a mallet of his fist.

- French Proverb