More French Proverbs

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.... >>

He who turns aside avoids danger.... >>

He that holds the handle of a frying-pan runs the risk of burning hims... >>

I know by my own pot how the others boil.... >>

Hunger looks in at the industrious man's door but dares not enter.... >>

Other Proverbs

A word from the mouth, a stone from a sling.... (Spanish) >>

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.... (Spanish) >>

One eye on the frying-pan and the other on the cat.... (Spanish) >>

To forget a wrong is the best revenge.... (Spanish) >>

A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real's worth of paper.... (Spanish) >>

A hungry dog is not afraid of a cudgelling.

- French Proverb