In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains.
Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure, love
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To make a happy couple, the husband must be deaf and the wife blind.
Proverbs and old sayings French about couple, husband, happiness, blind, wife
He who wishes to make a golden door drives a nail into it every day.
Proverbs and old sayings French about day
There never was a banquet so sumptuous but some one dined ill at it.
Proverbs and old sayings French
The friendship of great men is like the shadow of a bush, soon gone.
Proverbs and old sayings French about shadow, friendship, man
Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away his scabbard.
Proverbs and old sayings French
That often happens in a day which does not happen in a hundred years.
Proverbs and old sayings French about day
Touch not another man's money, for the most honest never added to it.
Proverbs and old sayings French about money, man
He who marries on a rainy day will be happy for the rest of his life.
Proverbs and old sayings French about rest, happiness, life, day
One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for a birth.
Proverbs and old sayings French about marriage, sadness
The niggard spends as much as he who is liberal, and in the end more.
Proverbs and old sayings French about end
The man has neither sense nor reason who leaves a young wife at home.
Proverbs and old sayings French about common sense, sense, reason, home, wife, man
A dog with a docked tail is not afraid that its backside can be seen.
Proverbs and old sayings French
One is never so rich as when one removes (from one house to another).
Proverbs and old sayings French about wealth, home, house
The devil was so fond of his children that he plucked out their eyes.
Proverbs and old sayings French about children, eyes, devil
A beautiful maxim in the memory is like a piece of gold in the purse.
Proverbs and old sayings French about memory
No man understands knavery better than the abbot who has been a monk.
Proverbs and old sayings French about man
Vessels large may venture more, But little boats must keep near shore.
Proverbs and old sayings French
Nobility is nothing but ancient riches, and money is the world's idol.
Proverbs and old sayings French about old, wealth, world, money, nothing
Better to have a friend on the road than gold or silver in your purse.
Proverbs and old sayings French
