More French Proverbs

Six things have no business in the world: a fighting priest, a coward ... >>

There's no guarding against the privy thief.... >>

What a monk thinks he dares to do.... >>

Every man to his taste.... >>

The nearer the minster the later to mass.... >>

Other Proverbs

Peace and patience, and death with penitence.... (Spanish) >>

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother... (Native American) >>

The rat that has but one hole is soon caught.... (Spanish) >>

Paper and ink and little justice.... (Spanish) >>

One grievance borne, another follows.... (Spanish) >>

To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a man live years ten times ten.

- French Proverb