More French Proverbs

One "take this" is worth more than two "you shall have."... >>

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.... >>

The kettle smuts the frying-pan.... >>

The merchant who gains not, loseth.... >>

The most lasting monuments are doubtless paper-monuments.... >>

Other Proverbs

A man that is lean, not from hunger, is harder than brass.... (Spanish) >>

Don't live in a town where there are no doctors... (Swedish) >>

The oaths of one who loves a woman are not to be believed.... (Spanish) >>

For whom does the blind man's wife adorn herself?... (Spanish) >>

To know and to act are one and the same... (Greek) >>

An art requires a whole man.

- French Proverb