More French Proverbs

The dead are soon forgotten.... >>

Example is the greatest of all seducers.... >>

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

Examine what is said, not him who speaks... >>

Fair, good, rich, and wise, is a woman four stories high.... >>

Other Proverbs

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is the end ... (American) >>

A buffeting threatened is never well given.... (Spanish) >>

Better lose a supper than have a hundred physicians.... (Spanish) >>

Never advise a man to go to the wars, or to marry.... (Spanish) >>

At a dangerous passage, yield to precedence.... (Italian) >>

Money is lost only for want of money.

- French Proverb