More French Proverbs

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When the cage is ready the bird is flown.... >>

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Other Proverbs

Wherries must not put out to sea.... (Spanish) >>

The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor.... (Spanish) >>

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.... (Spanish) >>

From long journeys long lies.... (Spanish) >>

He who has been first a novice and then an abbot, knows what... (Spanish) >>

Too much water drowned the miller.

- French Proverb