Proverbs and old sayings, page 889

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Hear, see, and say nothing if you would live in peace.

Proverbs and old sayings French about peace, nothing, contentment

He needs say nothing about the score who pays nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing

Spit not in the well, you may have to drink its water.

Proverbs and old sayings French about drinking, water, contentment

An apple, an egg, and a nut, You may eat after a slut.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

Everything in time comes to him who knows how to wait.

Proverbs and old sayings French about time

Never sell the bearskin till you have killed the bear.

Proverbs and old sayings French about commerce, contentment

Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

Princes keep good reckoning, they never lose anything.

Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck

A sparrow in hand is worth more than a vulture flying.

Proverbs and old sayings French

People count the faults of those who keep them waiting.

Proverbs and old sayings French about people

The bagpipe never utters a work till its belly is full.

Proverbs and old sayings French about work

If the seawater were hotter we could catch boiled fish.

Proverbs and old sayings French about trap, fishing

At borrowing cousin german, at repaying son of a whore.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Sickness comes in like a horse and leaves like a snail.

Proverbs and old sayings French

When the daughter dies, the son-in-law is dead as well.

Proverbs and old sayings French about law

No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A woman would rather swallow her teeth than her tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings French about woman

From to-morrow till to-morrow time goes a long journey.

Proverbs and old sayings French about time

Weather, wind, women, and fortune change like the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings French about weather, moon, change, wealth

He who is master of his thirst is master of his health.

Proverbs and old sayings French