What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
Proverbs and old sayings French about idea, happiness
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Fish must swim three times: once in the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
Proverbs and old sayings French about time, wine, fishing, water
He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.
Proverbs and old sayings French about attention, fear, lie
Write injuries in dust, But kindnesses in marble. [Fr., Eerivez les injures sue le sable, Mais les bienfaits sur le marbre. ]
Proverbs and old sayings French
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
Proverbs and old sayings French about integrity, union, self-control, love
The Emperor of Germany is the king of kings, the King of Spain king of men, the King of France king of asses, the King of England king of devils.
Proverbs and old sayings French about devil, man
Kindred without friends, friends without power, power without will, will without effect, effect without profit, profit without virtue, is not worth a rush.
Proverbs and old sayings French about power, virtue
What! No star, and you are going out to sea? Marching, and you have no music? Traveling, and you have no book? What! No love, and you are going out to live?
Proverbs and old sayings French about celebrity, music, contentment, love
Six things have no business in the world: a fighting priest, a coward knight, a covetous judge, a stinking barber, a soft-hearted mother, and an itchy baker.
Proverbs and old sayings French about affair, judges, world, mother, things
A person's reputation is like his shadow-sometimes it follows and sometimes it precedes him; and sometimes it is smaller and sometimes it is bigger than him.
Proverbs and old sayings French about prestige, shadow, people
The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.
Proverbs and old sayings French about prestige, shadow, man
The tulip is, among flowers, what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent, a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb, the other in its tail.
Proverbs and old sayings French about voice, flowers, proudness
The problem that has no name--which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities--is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our
Proverbs and old sayings French about human imperfections, name, americans
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
Proverbs and old sayings French about medicine
L'amour faite passer les temps. Les temps faite passer l'amour. (Love makes time pass. Time makes love pass. )
Proverbs and old sayings about time, love
Nothing venture, nothing have.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about nothing
There is a remedy for everything but death.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about death
What the she-wolf does (or brings forth) pleases the he-wolf.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
When an elephant is dead, a hare will not smell.
Proverbs and old sayings
One cannot borrow a man's mouth and eat onions for him.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
