More French Proverbs

Very good corn grows in little fields.... >>

The cobbler always wears the worst shoes.... >>

The bird ought not to soil its own nest.... >>

Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.... >>

Talk of the wolf and you see his tail.... >>

Other Proverbs

A little loss frightens, a great one tames.... (Spanish) >>

The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor.... (Spanish) >>

Proverbs are the children of experience.... (English) >>

He who receives the offerings let him ring the bells.... (Spanish) >>

I never was satisfied with "I will, I will." One "take this"... (Spanish) >>

Don't speak to the man at the helm.

- French Proverb