More French Proverbs

Without business, debauchery.... >>

Fair is he that comes, but fairer he that brings.... >>

A man who wants to drown his dog says he is mad.... >>

In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains.... >>

God and man think him a fool who brags of his of his own great wisdom.... >>

Other Proverbs

It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks.... (Spanish) >>

Who offends writes on sand; who is offended, on marble.... (Italian) >>

He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds... (Danish) >>

He who at twenty understands nothing, at thirty knows nothin... (Spanish) >>

Good is the fowl which another rears.... (Spanish) >>

The cask always smells of the herring.

- French Proverb