More French Proverbs

Spit not in the well, you may have to drink its water.... >>

Long talk makes short days.... >>

The skin is nearer than the shirt.... >>

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

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

Other Proverbs

Do what the friar says, and not what he does.... (Spanish) >>

Praise makes a bad man worse.... (American) >>

Long a widow weds with shame.... (English) >>

What one does, one becomes.... (Spanish) >>

Two of a trade never agree.... (Spanish) >>

The biter is often bit.

- French Proverb