More French Proverbs

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

Good advice is as good as an eye in the hand.... >>

Could a man foresee events he would never be poor.... >>

A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.... >>

A hawk's marriage: the hen is the better bird.... >>

Other Proverbs

Good luck makes its way in by elbowing.... (Spanish) >>

The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it leaves its ha... (Spanish) >>

Copper begets copper, and not ()the labour of) men's bones.... (Spanish) >>

Don't offer me advice; give me money.... (Spanish) >>

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.... (Spanish) >>

If a man would learn to pray let him go often to sea.

- French Proverb