More French Proverbs

Turn your tongue seven times before speaking.... >>

One can't make head or tail of it.... >>

Long absence changes friends.... >>

Mention not a rope in the house of one whose father was hanged.... >>

Muddy springs will have muddy streams.... >>

Other Proverbs

Don't stop the way of a bull or of a current of air.... (Spanish) >>

Dung is no saint, but where it falls it works miracles.... (Spanish) >>

A good word extinguishes more than a pailful of water.... (Spanish) >>

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before... (Romanian) >>

Drink wine upon figs.... (Spanish) >>

Soon gained soon squandered.

- French Proverb