Proverbs and old sayings French, page 86

2066 proverbs and old sayings french

Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away.

Proverbs and old sayings French about time, love

He that is too much in haste, may stumble on a good road.

Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck

Not until the tree is felled can you see how tall it was.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Don't make an oven of your cap or a garden of your belly.

Proverbs and old sayings French about garden

Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.

Proverbs and old sayings French about politics

A noble prince or king never has a coin to bless himself.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Man is fire, woman is tow, and the devil comes and blows.

Proverbs and old sayings French about devil, fire, fire brigade, woman, man

Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Fools are more useful to the wise than wise are to fools.

Proverbs and old sayings French

You dance better with a full belly than with a new dress.

Proverbs and old sayings French about dance

A girl without a friend is like the spring without roses.

Proverbs and old sayings French about spring

Fair, good, rich, and wise, is a woman four stories high.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wealth, woman, good, good luck

He is a horse with four white feet (i.e., he is unlucky).

Proverbs and old sayings French

What is true by firelight is not always true by daylight.

Proverbs and old sayings French

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A man is valued according to his own estimate of himself.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

With the help of an If you might put Paris into a bottle.

Proverbs and old sayings French about help

Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.

Proverbs and old sayings French about being

The most lasting monuments are doubtless paper-monuments.

Proverbs and old sayings French

If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you.

Proverbs and old sayings French about smoke, fire, fire brigade