Proverbs and old sayings French, page 96

2066 proverbs and old sayings french

It is easy to go on foot if you are holding your horse by the rein.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A good burgundy does a lot for women, especially when men drink it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about drinking, man, good, good luck

The candle that goes before, is better than that which comes after.

Proverbs and old sayings French

One day is as good as two for him who does everything in its place.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day, good, good luck

He that spends more than he is worth spins a rope for his own neck.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He ruins himself in promises, and clears himself by giving nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing

The hunchback does not see his own hump, but he sees his brother's.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

Proverbs and old sayings French about respect, anger, man

He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull.

Proverbs and old sayings French about death

He that would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for a pastime.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure, hell

It would be a huge book that contained all the may be said in a day.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day

A gentlemen of Beauce who stays in bed till his breeches are mended.

Proverbs and old sayings French

In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure, love

To make a happy couple, the husband must be deaf and the wife blind.

Proverbs and old sayings French about couple, husband, happiness, blind, wife

He who wishes to make a golden door drives a nail into it every day.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day

There never was a banquet so sumptuous but some one dined ill at it.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The friendship of great men is like the shadow of a bush, soon gone.

Proverbs and old sayings French about shadow, friendship, man

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away his scabbard.

Proverbs and old sayings French

That often happens in a day which does not happen in a hundred years.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day

Touch not another man's money, for the most honest never added to it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about money, man