More French Proverbs

By working in the smithy one becomes a smith.... >>

He knows enough who knows how to live and keep his own counsel.... >>

Every fool likes his bauble.... >>

Every one preaches for his own saint.... >>

But for all that the honest man has not got his purse.... >>

Other Proverbs

Bad news is always true.... (Spanish) >>

If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.... (Spanish) >>

Gossip needs no carriage... (Polish) >>

Every one in his own house, and God in all men's.... (Spanish) >>

He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.... (Spanish) >>

A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.

- French Proverb