More French Proverbs

To want to forget something is to remember it.... >>

He will not lost the parings of his nails.... >>

If it can lick, it can bite.... >>

A great estate is not gotten in a few hours.... >>

Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.... >>

Other Proverbs

Prosperity forgets father and mother.... (Spanish) >>

A young doctor makes a humpy churchyard.... (English) >>

He who has to deal with a blockhead has need of much brains.... (Spanish) >>

As is the king, so are his people.... (Spanish) >>

Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight.... (Italian) >>

Bad news has wings.

- French Proverb