More French Proverbs

The nearer the minster the later to mass.... >>

Every path has its puddle... >>

A good thing can be twice, nay, even thrice spoken.... >>

A Sunday's child never dies of the plague.... >>

A mansion pulled down is half built up again.... >>

Other Proverbs

Bachelor, a peacock; betrothed, a lion; married, an ass.... (Spanish) >>

Year of snow fruit will grow.... (English) >>

Abundance, like want, ruins many... (Romanian) >>

Come live with me and you'll know me.... (Spanish) >>

The stolen ox sometimes puts his head out of the stall.... (Spanish) >>

If you wrestle with a collier you will get a blotch.

- French Proverb