More French Proverbs

One cannot be and have been.... >>

No man understands knavery better than the abbot who has been a monk.... >>

Nothing is more like an honest man than a rogue.... >>

Mastiff never liked greyhound.... >>

Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.... >>

Other Proverbs

Never put your thumbs between two grinders.... (Spanish) >>

Put your money where your mouth is.... (American) >>

I thought to cross myself, and I put out my eye.... (Spanish) >>

Let there be no lack of food in the pigeon-house, and the pi... (Spanish) >>

The mouth and the purse, shut.... (Spanish) >>

A wicked man's gift hath a touch of his master.

- French Proverb