More French Proverbs

Ingratitude is the mother of every vice.... >>

There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.... >>

Any water puts out fire.... >>

He was born on a Sunday, he likes work ready done.... >>

Better a slip of the foot than of the tongue.... >>

Other Proverbs

If you would live healthy, be old early... (Benjamin Franklin) >>

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

When you die, your trumpeter will be buried.... (Spanish) >>

None can guess the jewel by the casket.... (English) >>

Adversity flatters no man.... (English) >>

The early man never borrows from the late man.

- French Proverb