More French Proverbs

An eel escapes from a good fisherman.... >>

Who cannot work out his salvation by heart will not do it by book.... >>

A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.... >>

If youth knew! if age could!... >>

If you have a sore eye wipe it with your elbow.... >>

Other Proverbs

In politics, a man must learn to rise above principle.... (American) >>

When a man is not used to breeches the seams gall him.... (Spanish) >>

A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks... (English) >>

He that seeks trouble never misses.... (English) >>

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.... (English) >>

Much would have more, and lost all.

- French Proverb