More French Proverbs

Honest poverty is thinly sown.... >>

God save me from those I trust in.... >>

Take a woman's first advice and not her second.... >>

A person is unlucky who falls on his back and breaks his nose.... >>

Farewell baskets, the vintage is ended.... >>

Other Proverbs

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom execut... (American) >>

Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald... (Arab) >>

He who does no more than another is no better than another.... (Spanish) >>

He who has no house of his own is everywhere at home.... (Spanish) >>

He who looks demurely trust not with your money.... (Spanish) >>

Much worship, much cost.

- French Proverb