Proverbs and old sayings French, page 49

2066 proverbs and old sayings french

A good repast ought to begin with hunger.

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

It is easier to abstain than to restrain.

Proverbs and old sayings French

If you would understand men, study women.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

The stronger the seam the worse the rent.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck

Fine and fine make but a slender doublet.

Proverbs and old sayings French

There's no showing the wolf to a bad dog.

Proverbs and old sayings French about bad luck, bad

Whores and thieves are always very pious.

Proverbs and old sayings French about saints, thieves

Buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets.

Proverbs and old sayings French about commerce

Only he who does nothing makes a mistake.

Proverbs and old sayings French about mistake, nothing

Punctuality is the politeness of princes.

Proverbs and old sayings French about punctuality, politeness

It is always the impossible that happens.

Proverbs and old sayings French about impossible

Nothing is more elegant than ready money.

Proverbs and old sayings French about money, nothing

To a bold man fortune holds out her hand.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wealth, man

He wears the mourning of his washerwoman.

Proverbs and old sayings French

White meal is not got out of a coal-sack.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A brain is worth little without a tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings French about brain

One is never so rich as when one removes.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wealth

There is no worse water than still water.

Proverbs and old sayings French about water

By candle-light a goat looks like a lady.

Proverbs and old sayings French about light