More French Proverbs
'Twixt the cup and the lip there's many a slip....
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Everything does not fall that totters....
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It is in vain to lean the ox to the water if he is not thirsty....
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It is the old cow's notion that she never was a calf....
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From short pleasure long repentance....
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Other Proverbs
A poor man is all schemes....
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A good painter need not give a name to his picture, a bad on...
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He who makes a law should keep it....
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The goat can't well cover herself with her tail....
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Good luck makes its way in by elbowing....
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He who looks not before finds himself behind.
- French Proverb