More French Proverbs

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.... >>

A cow does not know what her tail is worth until she has lost it.... >>

God save me from those I trust in.... >>

He looks one way and rows another.... >>

Better to have a friend on the road than gold or silver in your purse.... >>

Other Proverbs

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the r... (Spanish) >>

Abbot of Carcuela, you eat up the pot and ask for the pipkin... (Spanish) >>

Where there's smoke, there's fire.... (American) >>

To the grateful man give more than he asks.... (Spanish) >>

Your cracked jug seems better to me than my sound one.... (Spanish) >>

There never was a banquet so sumptuous but some one dined ill at it.

- French Proverb