More French Proverbs

The devil is not always at a poor man's door.... >>

A hundred years of fretting will not pay a halfpenny of debt.... >>

A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can.... >>

He that takes too great a leap falls into the ditch.... >>

It is the tone that makes the music.... >>

Other Proverbs

The paunch warm, the foot sleepy.... (Spanish) >>

He who has daughters to marry, let him give them silk to spi... (Spanish) >>

God take you, pound (of flax), drunk out and not yet spun.... (Spanish) >>

He cannot find water in the sea.... (Spanish) >>

A handsome woman is either silly or vain.... (Spanish) >>

The dead are soon forgotten.

- French Proverb