More French Proverbs

Reason not with the great, 'tis a perilous gate.... >>

Repute hangs a man.... >>

One may steal nothing save a lawyer's purse.... >>

Without bread and wine even love will pine.... >>

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a peb... >>

Other Proverbs

Praise yourself, basket, for I want to sell you.... (Spanish) >>

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.... (American) >>

Colts by falling, and lads by losing, grow prudent.... (Spanish) >>

It is not necessary to fall into a well to know its depth.... (Spanish) >>

The absent were never in the right.... (Spanish) >>

He, who more than he is worth doth spend, E'en makes a rope, his life to end.

- French Proverb