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When the blind man carries the banner, woe to those who follow.

Proverbs and old sayings French about blind, man

To know a man well one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

Hunger looks in at the industrious man's door but dares not enter.

Proverbs and old sayings French about hunger, man

He who waits for another man's trencher often dines in imagination.

Proverbs and old sayings French about imagination, man

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

Proverbs and old sayings French about respect, anger, man

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

Proverbs and old sayings French about money, man

The man has neither sense nor reason who leaves a young wife at home.

Proverbs and old sayings French about common sense, sense, reason, home, wife, man

No man understands knavery better than the abbot who has been a monk.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

God and man think him a fool who brags of his of his own great wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wisdom, god, man

There's nothing like being bespattered for making a man defy the gutter.

Proverbs and old sayings French about being, nothing, man

The friendship of a great man is like the shadow of a bush -- soon gone.

Proverbs and old sayings French about shadow, friendship, man

What the sober man keeps in his heart, is on the tongue of the drunkard.

Proverbs and old sayings French about heart, man

Between man and woman there is little difference, but vive la difference.

Proverbs and old sayings French about woman, man

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

Proverbs and old sayings French about peace, man

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverbs and old sayings French about bankers, money, man

It is in vain for a man to rise early who has the repute of lying in bed all the morning.

Proverbs and old sayings French about lie, man

The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.

Proverbs and old sayings French about prestige, shadow, man

One cannot borrow a man's mouth and eat onions for him.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverbs and old sayings about god, man