Proverbs and old sayings French, page 85

2066 proverbs and old sayings french

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

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

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bees.

Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck

It is more difficult for beautiful women to stay chaste.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Snivelling folks always want to wipe other folks' noses.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Fine dressing is a foul house, swept before the windows.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

It is too late for the bird to scream when it is caught.

Proverbs and old sayings French

You need to break the shell in order to have the almond.

Proverbs and old sayings French about order, need

A courtier should be without feeling and without honour.

Proverbs and old sayings French about honour

One cannot be at the oven and the mill at the same time.

Proverbs and old sayings French about time

Death takes the poor man's cow and the rich man's child.

Proverbs and old sayings French about children, death, wealth, man

Life is a dung pie from which you take a bite every day.

Proverbs and old sayings French about life, day

The word of a woman is as a little feather on the water.

Proverbs and old sayings French about word, woman, water

Saying well causes a laugh; doing well produces silence.

Proverbs and old sayings French about silence

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

You cannot make a beautiful plumage out of a pig's tail.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man, old, olderness

It is only idle people who can find time for everything.

Proverbs and old sayings French about people, time

He has enough to do who holds the handle of a frying-pan.

Proverbs and old sayings French

One never gets more than one's money's worth of anything.

Proverbs and old sayings French about money

As changeable is the moon so is the opinion of the woman.

Proverbs and old sayings French about opinion, moon, woman