More French Proverbs

One cannot please everybody and one's father.... >>

It is better to have to do with God than with his saints.... >>

Good watching drives away ill-luck.... >>

It is only the bashful that lose.... >>

If you cannot say it, point to it with your finger.... >>

Other Proverbs

Far from court, far from care.... (English) >>

Go to bed supperless and you will wake without debt.... (Spanish) >>

The oaths of one who loves a woman are not to be believed.... (Spanish) >>

Between saying and doing there is a long road.... (Spanish) >>

At an auction keep your mouth shut.... (Spanish) >>

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

- French Proverb