More French Proverbs

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A silver hammer breaks an iron door.... >>

No lock avails against a hatchet.... >>

Always in love, never married.... >>

Other Proverbs

It is better to lose than lose more.... (Spanish) >>

A hundred years hence we shall all be bald.... (Spanish) >>

He does not a little who burns his house: he frightens the r... (Spanish) >>

Corsair against corsair nothing is got but empty casks.... (Spanish) >>

Every cask smells of the wine it contained.... (Spanish) >>

What you can't get is just what suits you.

- French Proverb