He who eats of the king's goose will void a feather forty years after.
Proverbs and old sayings French
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Don't snap your fingers at the dogs before you are out of the village.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
Friends are lost by calling too often and by not calling often enough.
Proverbs and old sayings French
The greatest evidence of demoralization is the respect paid to wealth.
Proverbs and old sayings French about respect, wealth
Let every one mind his own business, and the cows will be well tended.
Proverbs and old sayings French about affair, mind
Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
Proverbs and old sayings French
If you want to keep your credit you must use it as little as possible.
Proverbs and old sayings French about use, contentment
It is only at the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones.
Proverbs and old sayings French about people
Give out that you have many friends, and believe that you have but few.
Proverbs and old sayings French about faith, contentment
At a bridge, a plank, a river, the servant foremost, the master behind.
Proverbs and old sayings French
A fine girl and a tattered gown always find something to hook the them.
Proverbs and old sayings French
When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.
Proverbs and old sayings French about love
The wine given to your workmen is that for which you get the best paid.
Proverbs and old sayings French about wine, contentment
When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.
Proverbs and old sayings French about truth
Better to have a friend on the road than gold and silver in your purse.
Proverbs and old sayings French
To turn an obstacle to one's advantage is a great step towards victory.
Proverbs and old sayings French about obstacles, victory
It is not enough to have cabbage, one must have something to grease it.
Proverbs and old sayings French
It is not the greatest beauties that inspire the most profound passion.
Proverbs and old sayings French
If the weather is fine, put on you cloak; if it rains, do as you please.
Proverbs and old sayings French about weather, contentment
People who have bread to eat do not appreciate the severity of a famine.
Proverbs and old sayings French about people
