Nothing is more ridiculous or troublesome than mere ceremony.
Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing
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A hundred years of fretting will not pay a halfpenny of debt.
Proverbs and old sayings French
You often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.
Proverbs and old sayings French about destiny
He never did a good day's work who went grumblingly about it.
Proverbs and old sayings French about work, day, good, good luck
Economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the rich.
Proverbs and old sayings French about economy, wealth, wisdom
It is well to leave off playing when the game is at its best.
Proverbs and old sayings French about games
Golden bishop, wooden crosier; wooden bishop, golden crosier.
Proverbs and old sayings French
Between promising and giving a man should marry his daughter.
Proverbs and old sayings French about man
He expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings French about fall
He who wishes to live at Rome must not quarrel with the pope.
Proverbs and old sayings French
All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment.
Proverbs and old sayings French about treasure, moment, earth
A Montgomery division: all on one side, nothing on the other.
Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing
We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.
Proverbs and old sayings French about silence, need
No one with a good catch of fish goes home by the back alley.
Proverbs and old sayings French about trap, fishing, home, good, good luck
He who cannot speak well of his trade does not understand it.
Proverbs and old sayings French about commerce
In the forehead and the eye The lecture of the mind doth lie.
Proverbs and old sayings French about mind, lie
He that will bare-foot go must not plant a garden of thistle.
Proverbs and old sayings French about garden
A pleasant companion on a journey is as good as a postchaise.
Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck
One must talk soothingly to the dog until one has passed him.
Proverbs and old sayings French
Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.
Proverbs and old sayings French
