More French Proverbs

One always knocks oneself in the sore place.... >>

Great boasters, little doers.... >>

Honest poverty is thinly sown.... >>

He that holds the handle of a frying-pan runs the risk of burning hims... >>

He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going barefoot.... >>

Other Proverbs

Man has responsiblity, not power... (Jewish) >>

Let it be a husband, though it be but a log.... (Spanish) >>

Gifts break (or dissolve) rocks.... (Spanish) >>

One wedding brings another.... (Spanish) >>

A blind man's wife needs no paint.... (Spanish) >>

There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers.

- French Proverb