More French Proverbs

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Who hears but one bell hears but one sound.... >>

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.... >>

Not every sort of wood is fit to make an arrow.... >>

No living man all things can.... >>

Other Proverbs

Never swap horses crossing a stream.... (American) >>

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in thei... (English) >>

Who gives what he has before he is dead, take a mallet and k... (Spanish) >>

When our enemy flies, build him a golden bridge.... (Spanish) >>

When we think to catch we are sometimes caught.... (Spanish) >>

I never saw a silent rich man.

- French Proverb