More French Proverbs

All cats are alike grey at night.... >>

One cannot please everybody and one's father.... >>

He is like the gardener's dog, who don't eat cabbage and will let no o... >>

A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.... >>

Great thieves always have their sleeves full of gags.... >>

Other Proverbs

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.... (Chinese) >>

Poverty does not destroy virtue, nor does wealth bestow it.... (Spanish) >>

How shall the enemy of the bride speak well of the wedding?... (Spanish) >>

The land a man knows is his mother.... (Spanish) >>

Not to wish to recover is a mortal symptom.... (Spanish) >>

He who holds the handle of the frying-pan turns it as he pleases.

- French Proverb