More French Proverbs

A good swordsman is never quarrelsome.... >>

Who sows thorns let him not walk bare-foot.... >>

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.... >>

A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.... >>

A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.... >>

Other Proverbs

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you... (Chinese) >>

Scratch an Englishman, find a seaman.... (English) >>

When they offer you a ring, hold out your finger.... (Spanish) >>

Whether the pitcher strike the stone, or the stone the pitch... (Spanish) >>

Danger is next neighbor to security.... (English) >>

Who refuses, muses.

- French Proverb