More French Proverbs

One always returns to one's first love.... >>

The cask always smells of the herring.... >>

One cannot ring the bells and walk in the procession.... >>

One must lose a minnow to catch a salmon.... >>

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

Other Proverbs

A man can't do more than he can do. What says Don Ferdinando... (American) >>

Take in laundry before you take in partners.... (Spanish) >>

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.... (Italian) >>

A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long ti... (Spanish) >>

A house filled with guests is eaten up and ill spoken of.... (Spanish) >>

The false friend is like the shadow of a sun-dial.

- French Proverb