You need to break the shell in order to have the almond.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
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128 proverbs and old sayings french about contentment
Life is a dung pie from which you take a bite every day.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
You cannot make a beautiful plumage out of a pig's tail.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
Not until the tree is felled can you see how tall it was.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
You dance better with a full belly than with a new dress.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
With the help of an If you might put Paris into a bottle.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
You hear little from the drummer that is paid in advance.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
Grease a churl's boots and he'll say you are burning them.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
When the devil says his paternosters he means to cheat you.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
Marry your son when you please, your daughter when you can.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
Tell me whom you frequent, and I will tell you who you are.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
See a pin and let it lie, you'll want a pin before you die.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
Take down a rogue from the gallows and he will hang you up.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
One take this is worth more than two you shall have.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
When the child is christened you will have godfathers enough.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
When you have not what you like, you must like what you have.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
You always fall down in the direction of where you bend over.
Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment
