If you give a gift to a rich man, the devil sniggers.
Proverbs and old sayings French about gifts, wealth, devil, man, contentment
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Nothing looks more like an honest man than a villain.
Proverbs and old sayings French about criminals, nothing, man
If a man would learn to pray let him go often to sea.
Proverbs and old sayings French about pray, man
When a man's friend marries, all is over between them.
Proverbs and old sayings French about man
The more a man exposes his nakedness the colder he is.
Proverbs and old sayings French about man
But for all that the honest man has not got his purse.
Proverbs and old sayings French about man
A man know's no more to any purpose than he practises.
Proverbs and old sayings French about purpose, man
You have to be rich to be able to live like a poor man.
Proverbs and old sayings French about wealth, man, contentment
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
Proverbs and old sayings French about man
A man is valued according to his own estimate of himself.
Proverbs and old sayings French about man
He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.
Proverbs and old sayings French about man
A man who is afraid of suffering suffers from fear itself.
Proverbs and old sayings French about suffering, fear, man
Happy is the man who has a handsome wife close to an abbey.
Proverbs and old sayings French about happiness, wife, man
When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.
Proverbs and old sayings French about blind, man
The richest man carries nothing away with him but a shroud.
Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing, man
A man travels as far in a day as a snail in a hundred years.
Proverbs and old sayings French about day, man
Between promising and giving a man should marry his daughter.
Proverbs and old sayings French about man
The devil sweetens another man's wife with a spoonful of honey.
Proverbs and old sayings French about wife, devil, man
There's virtue in a man's face (i.e., presence carries weight).
Proverbs and old sayings French about virtue, face, man
The cart ruins the road, the woman the man, the water the wine.
Proverbs and old sayings French about wine, woman, water, man
