More French Proverbs

For one pleasure a thousand pains.... >>

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Good wine makes the horse go.... >>

He'll laugh well that laughs longest.... >>

Jest not with the eye, or religion.... >>

Other Proverbs

A runaway monk never praises his monastery.... (Italian) >>

A good word extinguishes more than a pailful of water.... (Spanish) >>

To know and to act are one and the same... (Greek) >>

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor... (Greek) >>

The more you court a clown the statelier he grows.... (Spanish) >>

What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave.

- French Proverb