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He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull.

Proverbs and old sayings French about death

He that would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for a pastime.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure, hell

It would be a huge book that contained all the may be said in a day.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day

A gentlemen of Beauce who stays in bed till his breeches are mended.

Proverbs and old sayings French

In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains.

Proverbs and old sayings French about pleasure, love

To make a happy couple, the husband must be deaf and the wife blind.

Proverbs and old sayings French about couple, husband, happiness, blind, wife

He who wishes to make a golden door drives a nail into it every day.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day

There never was a banquet so sumptuous but some one dined ill at it.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The friendship of great men is like the shadow of a bush, soon gone.

Proverbs and old sayings French about shadow, friendship, man

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away his scabbard.

Proverbs and old sayings French

That often happens in a day which does not happen in a hundred years.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day

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

Proverbs and old sayings French about money, man

He who marries on a rainy day will be happy for the rest of his life.

Proverbs and old sayings French about rest, happiness, life, day

One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for a birth.

Proverbs and old sayings French about marriage, sadness

The niggard spends as much as he who is liberal, and in the end more.

Proverbs and old sayings French about end

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

A dog with a docked tail is not afraid that its backside can be seen.

Proverbs and old sayings French

One is never so rich as when one removes (from one house to another).

Proverbs and old sayings French about wealth, home, house

The devil was so fond of his children that he plucked out their eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings French about children, eyes, devil

A beautiful maxim in the memory is like a piece of gold in the purse.

Proverbs and old sayings French about memory