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Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.

Proverbs and old sayings French about fashion

A lawyer needs three bags: one full of papers, one full of money, and one full of patience.

Proverbs and old sayings French about patience, money

To wash an ass's head is but loss of time and soap. (To reprove a fool is but lost labour. )

Proverbs and old sayings French about heads, time

Nothing so bold as a miller's shirt (because it takes a thief by the throat every morning).

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves, nothing

The devil was sick, the Devil a saint would be; the Devil was well, the devil a saint was he.

Proverbs and old sayings French about devil, saints

The interested friend is a swallow on the roof. (Prepared to leave at the approach of winter. )

Proverbs and old sayings French

He who caresses thee more than the occasion justifies, has either deceived thee or intends it.

Proverbs and old sayings French

By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.

Proverbs and old sayings French about time

To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a man live years ten times ten.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

Who does not venture gets neither horse nor mule, and who ventures too much lose horse and mule.

Proverbs and old sayings French

In a conclave many go in as a pope but come back out as the cardinal they were when they went in.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.

Proverbs and old sayings French about longing, life

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wish, people, old, olderness

When a cow is lost it is something to recover its tail, were it only to make a handle for one's door.

Proverbs and old sayings French

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverbs and old sayings French about state, question

A glaring sunny morning, a woman that talks Latin, and a child reared on wine, never come to a good end.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wine, children, end, woman, good, good luck

Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a Frenchman to accept the challenge.

Proverbs and old sayings French about hell, fight, devil

If you want to love your household as much as your bread then you will have to knead your wife like dough.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife, love, contentment