More French Proverbs

Happy is the man who has a handsome wife close to an abbey.... >>

Keep a stiff upper lip.... >>

Everything goes by favour and cousinship.... >>

For one pleasure a thousand pains.... >>

He who dispraises a thing, wants to buy it.... >>

Other Proverbs

He who promises incurs a debt.... (Spanish) >>

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the vie... (Chinese) >>

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is stil... (Spanish) >>

Danger is next neighbor to security.... (English) >>

He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon.... (English) >>

Much worship, much cost.

- French Proverb