More French Proverbs

Wishes never filled the bag.... >>

He gains enough who loses sorrow.... >>

From bishop to turn miller.... >>

God gives the cold according to the cloth.... >>

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.... >>

Other Proverbs

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your frien... (Latin) >>

If love be timid it is not true.... (Spanish) >>

My neighbour's goat gives more milk than mine.... (Spanish) >>

No Jew a fool; no hare lazy.... (Spanish) >>

I don't want the cheese; I just want out of the trap.... (Spanish) >>

There is no worse water than that which sleeps.

- French Proverb