More French Proverbs

Never choose your women or linen by candlelight.... >>

To every lord every honour.... >>

Who cannot work out his salvation by heart will not do it by book.... >>

The saint's-day over, farewell the saint.... >>

To do, one must be doing.... >>

Other Proverbs

Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie... (Shan) >>

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is stil... (Spanish) >>

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.... (English) >>

If thou canst not see the bottom, wade not.... (English) >>

Where one door is shut another opens.... (Spanish) >>

Some have bread who have no teeth left.

- French Proverb