It is only at the tree loaded with fruit that people throw stones.
Proverbs and old sayings French about people
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It is only the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones.
Proverbs and old sayings French about people
In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears.
Proverbs and old sayings French about sadness, tears, youth, age, olderness
Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
Proverbs and old sayings French about merit, wish, people, contentment
Ingratitude is a kind of weakness; the clever are never ungrateful.
Proverbs and old sayings French about weakness, ingratitude, intelligence
He who waits for another man's trencher often dines in imagination.
Proverbs and old sayings French about imagination, man
Were if not for if and but, we should all be rich for ever.
Proverbs and old sayings French about wealth
The gown is hers that wears it; and the world is his who enjoys it.
Proverbs and old sayings French about world
Widows comfort themselves when they remarry, widowers take revenge.
Proverbs and old sayings French about revenge
It is easy to go on foot if you are holding your horse by the rein.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
A good burgundy does a lot for women, especially when men drink it.
Proverbs and old sayings French about drinking, man, good, good luck
The candle that goes before, is better than that which comes after.
Proverbs and old sayings French
One day is as good as two for him who does everything in its place.
Proverbs and old sayings French about day, good, good luck
He that spends more than he is worth spins a rope for his own neck.
Proverbs and old sayings French
He ruins himself in promises, and clears himself by giving nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
Proverbs and old sayings French about respect, anger, man
He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull.
Proverbs and old sayings French about death
He that would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for a pastime.
Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure, hell
It would be a huge book that contained all the may be said in a day.
Proverbs and old sayings French about day
A gentlemen of Beauce who stays in bed till his breeches are mended.
Proverbs and old sayings French
