More French Proverbs

As the man is worth his land is worth.... >>

Possession is the grave of pleasure.... >>

He that is ashamed to eat is ashamed to live.... >>

Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.... >>

Do not abstain from sowing for fear of the pigeons.... >>

Other Proverbs

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names... (American) >>

The glass-dealer's horses fell out, and he looked on to see ... (Spanish) >>

One drink is just right; two is too many; three are too few.... (Spanish) >>

In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse.... (Spanish) >>

One stroke on the nail and a hundred on the horseshoe.... (Spanish) >>

It is not the big oxen that do the best day's work.

- French Proverb