More French Proverbs

Give me the rhubarb and you may take the senna.... >>

To eat and drink, and sleep together, is marriage, methinks.... >>

The cask always smells of the herring.... >>

One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoidi... >>

Nip the briar in the bud.... >>

Other Proverbs

So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long.... (Spanish) >>

The horse thinks one thing, and his rider another.... (Spanish) >>

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions... (Arab) >>

You used to be a baker, though now you wear gloves.... (Spanish) >>

Fall sick, and you will see who is your friend and who not.... (Spanish) >>

When the door is low one must stoop.

- French Proverb