Proverbs and old sayings French, page 68

2066 proverbs and old sayings french

You sell more herrings on the market than sole.

Proverbs and old sayings French about commerce, stores

There is no bush so small but casts its shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings French about shadow

You can cage a bird but you can't make it sing.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A guest and a fish after three days are poison.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day, fishing

What comes from the fife goes back to the drum.

Proverbs and old sayings French

To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.

Proverbs and old sayings French about impossible, faith, things

They forgive the wine but they hang the bottle.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wine

He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Children have more need of models than critics.

Proverbs and old sayings French about children, need

Every one takes his pleasure where he finds it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure

One may as well be well beaten as badly beaten.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Take a woman's first advice and not her second.

Proverbs and old sayings French about advice, woman

Not every sort of wood is fit to make an arrow.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Not every thunderclap is followed by lightning.

Proverbs and old sayings French

When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.

Proverbs and old sayings French about reason, man

Give me the rhubarb and you may take the senna.

Proverbs and old sayings French

God is on the side of the strongest battalions.

Proverbs and old sayings French about god

He has a very hard heart who does not love May.

Proverbs and old sayings French about heart, love

A fault that is denied once is committed twice.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Do not let grass grow on the path of friendship.

Proverbs and old sayings French about friendship