Proverbs and old sayings French, page 84

2066 proverbs and old sayings french

Between the hand and the mouth the soup is often spilt.

Proverbs and old sayings French

What orators lack in depth, they make up for in length.

Proverbs and old sayings French

We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about things

He that stays in the valley will not get over the hill.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The greatest king must at last go to bed with a shovel.

Proverbs and old sayings French

You have to be rich to be able to live like a poor man.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wealth, man

Some think they have done when they are only beginning.

Proverbs and old sayings French about beginning

What the colt learns in youth his continues in old age.

Proverbs and old sayings French about olderness, youth, age, old

He that walks too hastily, often stumbles in plain way.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Truth is the club that knocks down and kills everybody.

Proverbs and old sayings French about truth

The only real way someone can stop criticism is to die.

Proverbs and old sayings French about criticism, real estate, death

When you are rich you suffer in a more comfortable way.

Proverbs and old sayings French about suffering, wealth

You cannot have the bacon and the pig at the same time.

Proverbs and old sayings French about time

The fault is great in proportion to him who commits it.

Proverbs and old sayings French

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverbs and old sayings French about people

A woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.

Proverbs and old sayings French about woman

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

Proverbs and old sayings French about reason, love

Small gifts maintain friendship, big ones maintain love.

Proverbs and old sayings French about gifts, friendship, love

If the sky were to fall we should catch plenty of larks.

Proverbs and old sayings French about sky, fall

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Proverbs and old sayings French about love