More French Proverbs

A man travels as far in a day as a snail in a hundred years.... >>

He puts his sickle into another man's harvest.... >>

Every art requires the whole person.... >>

A gaunt brute bites sore.... >>

A churl knows not the work of spurs (i.e., honour).... >>

Other Proverbs

The brain, that sows not corn, plants thistles.... (Spanish) >>

No fly gets into a shut mouth.... (Spanish) >>

Sow corn in clay, and plant vines in sand.... (Spanish) >>

If one, two, three say you are an ass, put on a tail.... (Spanish) >>

If you love me, John, your acts will tell me so.... (Spanish) >>

I never saw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as one that settled be.

- French Proverb