More French Proverbs
The meaning is best known to the speaker....
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It is not the big oxen that do the best day's work....
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Courting and wooing brings dallying and doing....
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A hundred years is not much, but never is a long while....
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Adversity makes strange bedfellows....
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Other Proverbs
Other folks'cares kill the ass....
(Spanish) >>
First food, then moral...
(German) >>
If you would live healthy, be old early...
(Benjamin Franklin) >>
He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade....
(Spanish) >>
An iron rod bends while it is hot....
(Greek) >>
The sea has an enormous thirst and an insatiable appetite.
- French Proverb
