More French Proverbs

All heads are not sense-boxes.... >>

Light burdens borne far become heavy.... >>

A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.... >>

A muffled cat never caught a mouse.... >>

God save you from a man who has but one business.... >>

Other Proverbs

With seven nurses the child loses it eye.... (Russian) >>

It is better to be born a beggar than a fool.... (Spanish) >>

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

He who wants to be rich in a year comes to the gallows in ha... (Spanish) >>

Hunger and cold give a man up to his enemy.... (Spanish) >>

No jesting with edged tools.

- French Proverb