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His horse's head is too big, it cannot get out of the stable.

Proverbs and old sayings French about heads

When the child is christened you will have godfathers enough.

Proverbs and old sayings French about children, contentment

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, time, god

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

Proverbs and old sayings French

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about destiny

Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pray, god, contentment

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

Proverbs and old sayings French about angels

When you have not what you like, you must like what you have.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

Rebukes ought not to have a grain more of salt than of sugar.

Proverbs and old sayings French

You always fall down in the direction of where you bend over.

Proverbs and old sayings French about fall, contentment

Pulling the devil by the tail does not lead far young or old.

Proverbs and old sayings French about devil, old, olderness

Nothing is more ridiculous or troublesome than mere ceremony.

Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing

A hundred years of fretting will not pay a halfpenny of debt.

Proverbs and old sayings French

You often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about destiny, contentment

He never did a good day's work who went grumblingly about it.

Proverbs and old sayings French about work, day, good, good luck

Economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the rich.

Proverbs and old sayings French about economy, wealth, wisdom

It is well to leave off playing when the game is at its best.

Proverbs and old sayings French about games

Golden bishop, wooden crosier; wooden bishop, golden crosier.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Between promising and giving a man should marry his daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

He expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings French about fall