More French Proverbs

Many are esteemed, only because they are not known.... >>

Trickery comes back to its master.... >>

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.... >>

Much memory and little judgment.... >>

The bird ought not to soil its own nest.... >>

Other Proverbs

Shut your door, and you will make your neighbour a good woma... (Spanish) >>

Love is an excuse for its own faults.... (Italian) >>

Praise makes a bad man worse.... (American) >>

Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.... (Italian) >>

A pig's tail will never make a good arrow.... (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