More French Proverbs

Fine feathers make find birds.... >>

Rebukes ought not to have a grain more of salt than of sugar.... >>

The sea refuses no river.... >>

One candle for St. Michael, and another for his devil.... >>

No man is a prophet in his own country.... >>

Other Proverbs

If luck comes, who comes not? If luck comes not, who comes?... (Chinese) >>

A man forewarned is as good as two.... (Spanish) >>

Desire beautifies what is ugly.... (Spanish) >>

Man is fire, woman is tow; the devil comes with a bellows.... (Spanish) >>

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.... (Unknown) >>

No one is so liberal as he who has nothing to give.

- French Proverb