More French Proverbs

You may as well give a good beating as a bad one.... >>

A fence between makes love more keen.... >>

He is not escaped who drags his chain.... >>

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.... >>

Civility costs nothing.... >>

Other Proverbs

Advice when most needed is least heeded.... (English) >>

A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real's worth of paper.... (Spanish) >>

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn... (Italian) >>

The comforter's head never aches.... (Italian) >>

A good man's pedigree is little hunted up.... (Spanish) >>

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

- French Proverb