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You easily lend bread to the one who has flour.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a girl.

Proverbs and old sayings French about eyes, wealth, man

A cake eaten in peace, is worth two in trouble.

Proverbs and old sayings French about problems, peace

Happy the child whose father goes to the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings French about happiness, children, devil

Iron may be rubbed so long that it gets heated.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Where there is no sore there needs no plaister.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The great thieves lead away the little thieves.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves

You sell more herrings on the market than sole.

Proverbs and old sayings French about commerce, stores, contentment

There is no bush so small but casts its shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings French about shadow

You can cage a bird but you can't make it sing.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

A guest and a fish after three days are poison.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day, fishing

What comes from the fife goes back to the drum.

Proverbs and old sayings French

To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.

Proverbs and old sayings French about impossible, faith, things

They forgive the wine but they hang the bottle.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wine

He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Children have more need of models than critics.

Proverbs and old sayings French about children, need

Every one takes his pleasure where he finds it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure

One may as well be well beaten as badly beaten.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Take a woman's first advice and not her second.

Proverbs and old sayings French about advice, woman

Not every sort of wood is fit to make an arrow.

Proverbs and old sayings French