More French Proverbs

Lawyers' houses are built of fools' heads.... >>

All truths are not good to be uttered.... >>

A man may threaten yet be afraid.... >>

Avarice bursts the bag.... >>

A good swordsman is never quarrelsome.... >>

Other Proverbs

There is no better surgeon than one with many scars.... (Spanish) >>

Sow dry and set wet.... (Spanish) >>

Everybody's friends and nobody's friend is all one.... (Spanish) >>

Ask not after a good man's pedigree.... (Spanish) >>

He is your friend who gets you out of a fray.... (Spanish) >>

The friendship of great men is like the shadow of a bush, soon gone.

- French Proverb