More French Proverbs

Never put your finger between the tree and the bark.... >>

Example is the greatest of all seducers.... >>

Give me the rhubarb and you may take the senna.... >>

Give him a foot and he'll take four.... >>

Everything goes to him who does not want it.... >>

Other Proverbs

There is no need to bind up one's head before it is broken.... (Italian) >>

Whoever falls sick of folly, is long in getting cured.... (Spanish) >>

Speak of the devil and he appears... (Yiddish) >>

A man can only die once.... (English) >>

When our enemy flies, build him a golden bridge.... (Spanish) >>

To eat and drink, and sleep together, is marriage, methinks.

- French Proverb