More French Proverbs

Muddy springs will have muddy streams.... >>

Every potter vaunts his own pot.... >>

Fortune can take from us only what she has given us.... >>

A hawk's marriage: the hen is the better bird.... >>

Better lose the wool than the sheep.... >>

Other Proverbs

Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.... (Spanish) >>

Wherries must not put out to sea.... (Spanish) >>

We are both carriers, and shall meet on the road.... (Spanish) >>

It takes three generation to make a gentleman.... (American) >>

There is no worse apprentice than the one who doesn't want t... (Spanish) >>

The saint's-day over, farewell the saint.

- French Proverb