More French Proverbs

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When goods increase the body decreases.... >>

A Rowland for an Oliver.... >>

A guest and a fish after three days are poison.... >>

A lord of straw devours a vassal of steel.... >>

Other Proverbs

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself... (Yiddish) >>

The golden ass passes everywhere.... (Spanish) >>

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted the... (Romanian) >>

The devil gets into the belfry by the vicar's skirts.... (Spanish) >>

The fault is as great as he that commits it.... (Spanish) >>

He, who more than he is worth doth spend, E'en makes a rope, his life to end.

- French Proverb