More French Proverbs

But for all that the honest man has not got his purse.... >>

Who is born of a cat will run after mice. (An illusion to one of Aesop... >>

From short pleasure long repentance.... >>

A hundred years a banner, a hundred years a barrow. [Signifying the ch... >>

He gains enough who loses sorrow.... >>

Other Proverbs

Fools and bairns should never see half-done work.... (Spanish) >>

A spot shows most on the finest cloth.... (Spanish) >>

He that shippeth the devil must make the best of him.... (English) >>

A covetous abbot for one offering loses a hundred.... (Spanish) >>

He who stumbles and does not fall mends his pace.... (Spanish) >>

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

- French Proverb