More French Proverbs

The best driver will sometimes upset.... >>

Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.... >>

No man understands knavery better than the abbot who has been a monk.... >>

The hen ought not to cackle in presence of the cock.... >>

Might knows no right.... >>

Other Proverbs

For a wife and horse to your neighbour.... (Italian) >>

The greater the truth, the greater the libel.... (English) >>

God does not smite with both hands.... (Spanish) >>

Poverty is not a crime.... (Spanish) >>

He who marrieth does well, but he who marrieth not, better.... (Spanish) >>

Soft words don't scotch the tongue.

- French Proverb