The devil was sick, the Devil a saint would be; the Devil was well, the devil a saint was he.
Proverbs and old sayings French about devil, saints
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The interested friend is a swallow on the roof. (Prepared to leave at the approach of winter. )
Proverbs and old sayings French
He who caresses thee more than the occasion justifies, has either deceived thee or intends it.
Proverbs and old sayings French
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
Proverbs and old sayings French about time
To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine.
Proverbs and old sayings French about man
To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a man live years ten times ten.
Proverbs and old sayings French about man
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
Who does not venture gets neither horse nor mule, and who ventures too much lose horse and mule.
Proverbs and old sayings French
In a conclave many go in as a pope but come back out as the cardinal they were when they went in.
Proverbs and old sayings French
The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.
Proverbs and old sayings French about longing, life
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.
Proverbs and old sayings French about wish, people, old, olderness
When a cow is lost it is something to recover its tail, were it only to make a handle for one's door.
Proverbs and old sayings French
In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?
Proverbs and old sayings French about state, question
A glaring sunny morning, a woman that talks Latin, and a child reared on wine, never come to a good end.
Proverbs and old sayings French about wine, children, end, woman, good, good luck
Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a Frenchman to accept the challenge.
Proverbs and old sayings French about hell, fight, devil
If you want to love your household as much as your bread then you will have to knead your wife like dough.
Proverbs and old sayings French about wife, love, contentment
I never saw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as one that settled be.
Proverbs and old sayings French about family
People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.
Proverbs and old sayings French about competition, people
Remember that everyone you ever meet is sure to fear something, to love something, and to have lost something.
Proverbs and old sayings French about fear, love, contentment
Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Proverbs and old sayings French
