Proverbs and old sayings French, page 27

2066 proverbs and old sayings french

Every one says: My right is good.

Proverbs and old sayings French about rightness, good, good luck

He gains enough who loses sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings French about sadness

The weakest must hold the candle.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He who spares vice wrongs virtue.

Proverbs and old sayings French about vice, virtue

You cannot get oil out of a wall.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The big fish eat the little ones.

Proverbs and old sayings French about fishing

Contrivance is better than force.

Proverbs and old sayings French about force, police

A sow is always dreaming of bran.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The list is worse than the cloth.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The listener makes the backbiter.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A good lawyer is a bad neighbour.

Proverbs and old sayings French about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Take heed of an enemy reconciled.

Proverbs and old sayings French about enemies

A spark may raise An awful blaze.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Possession is as good as a title.

Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck

It is only the bashful that lose.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A late Easter, a long cold spring.

Proverbs and old sayings French about spring

To every bird its nest seems fair.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Good swimmers are drowned at last.

Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck

You may know the lion by his claw.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He that is too secure is not safe.

Proverbs and old sayings French