More French Proverbs

Better lose the wool than the sheep.... >>

No wind can do him good who steers for no port.... >>

You cannot get oil out of a wall.... >>

There never was a banquet so sumptuous but some one dined ill at it.... >>

The old monkey gets the apple.... >>

Other Proverbs

The magistrate's son gets out of every scrape.... (Spanish) >>

A little gall embitters much honey.... (Spanish) >>

A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers,... (Spanish) >>

When anger rises, think of the consequences... (Hindu) >>

Every cask smells of the wine it contained.... (Spanish) >>

It is the pace that kills.

- French Proverb