Proverbs and old sayings, page 889

43575 proverbs and old sayings

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

It is madness for a sheep to talk of peace with a wolf.

Proverbs and old sayings French about peace

It is easier to get away from the back than the bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings French

God visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, time, god

The sheep that is too tame is sucked by too many lambs.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A hundred years is not much, but never is a long while.

Proverbs and old sayings French