More French Proverbs

A civil denial is better than a rude grant.... >>

Possession is the grave of pleasure.... >>

It is only at the tree loaded with fruit that people throw stones.... >>

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

Great scholars are not the shrewdest men.... >>

Other Proverbs

He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne... (Italian) >>

A buffeting threatened is never well given.... (Spanish) >>

Where there is love, there is pain... (Greek) >>

As long as I was a daughter-in-law I never had a good mother... (Spanish) >>

Custom in infancy becomes nature in old age.... (Spanish) >>

The have always returns to her form.

- French Proverb