More French Proverbs

One may as well be well beaten as badly beaten.... >>

He has nothing who has not enough.... >>

At a bridge, a plank, a river, the servant foremost, the master behind... >>

A man who wants bread is ready for anything.... >>

A man travels as far in a day as a snail in a hundred years.... >>

Other Proverbs

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than ... (Arabian) >>

I thought I had no husband, and I eat up the stew.... (Spanish) >>

If you want to thrash your wife, ask her for a drink of wate... (Spanish) >>

If you want a fine wife, don't pick her on a Sunday.... (Spanish) >>

He who says what he likes, hears what he don't like.... (Spanish) >>

One half the world knows not how the other half lives.

- French Proverb