More French Proverbs

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.... >>

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.... >>

Every art requires the whole person.... >>

Borrows must not be choosers.... >>

All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment.... >>

Other Proverbs

Where there is love, there is pain... (Greek) >>

Know, cabbages, that there is spinach in the stew.... (Spanish) >>

He who wants to kill his dog only has to say he is mad.... (Spanish) >>

The mother of mischief is no bigger than a midge's wing.... (Spanish) >>

The bowels support the heart, and not the heart the bowels.... (Spanish) >>

To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine.

- French Proverb