More French Proverbs

Never say, Fountain, I will not drink of thy water.... >>

Don't talk Latin before the Franciscans.... >>

All is luck or ill luck in this world.... >>

A fool is always beginning.... >>

He is a fool who makes a mallet of his fist.... >>

Other Proverbs

A favour to come is better than a hundred received.... (Italian) >>

He who always tells me a lie never cheats me.... (Spanish) >>

The boy is father to the man.... (Spanish) >>

The more a woman admires her face, the more she ruins her ho... (Spanish) >>

Let it be a husband, though it be but a log.... (Spanish) >>

The devil was sick, the Devil a saint would be; the Devil was well, the devil a saint was he.

- French Proverb