Proverbs and old sayings, page 891

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

Proverbs and old sayings French about reason, love, contentment

Small gifts maintain friendship, big ones maintain love.

Proverbs and old sayings French about gifts, friendship, love

If the sky were to fall we should catch plenty of larks.

Proverbs and old sayings French about trap, sky, fall

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Proverbs and old sayings French about love

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverbs and old sayings French about olderness, youth, knowledge, age, old

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bees.

Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck

It is more difficult for beautiful women to stay chaste.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Snivelling folks always want to wipe other folks' noses.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Fine dressing is a foul house, swept before the windows.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

It is too late for the bird to scream when it is caught.

Proverbs and old sayings French

You need to break the shell in order to have the almond.

Proverbs and old sayings French about order, need, contentment

A courtier should be without feeling and without honour.

Proverbs and old sayings French about honour

One cannot be at the oven and the mill at the same time.

Proverbs and old sayings French about time

Death takes the poor man's cow and the rich man's child.

Proverbs and old sayings French about children, death, wealth, man

Life is a dung pie from which you take a bite every day.

Proverbs and old sayings French about life, day, contentment

The word of a woman is as a little feather on the water.

Proverbs and old sayings French about word, woman, water

Saying well causes a laugh; doing well produces silence.

Proverbs and old sayings French about silence

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

You cannot make a beautiful plumage out of a pig's tail.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man, old, olderness