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The devil is not always at a poor man's door.

Proverbs and old sayings French about devil, man

Trim my beard, and I will trim your top-knot.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A mansion pulled down is half built up again.

Proverbs and old sayings French

When all sins grow old covetousness is young.

Proverbs and old sayings French about sin, old, olderness

The abbey does not fail for want on one monk.

Proverbs and old sayings French

You are never better served than by yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

Proverbs and old sayings French about devil

Setting out well is a quarter of the journey.

Proverbs and old sayings French

One cannot please everybody and one's father.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Every miller draws the water to his own mill.

Proverbs and old sayings French about water

An apothecary ought not to be long a cuckold.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Naught must disturb a man of worth at dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

Cherries are bitter to the glutted blackbird.

Proverbs and old sayings French about bitter

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.

Proverbs and old sayings French about impossible

Good advice is as good as an eye in the hand.

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

Love does wonders, but money makes marriages.

Proverbs and old sayings French about money, love

The greatest burdens are not the gainfullest.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Better a slip of the foot than of the tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings French

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverbs and old sayings French

On a fool's beard the barber learns to shave.

Proverbs and old sayings French