More French Proverbs

Great scholars are not the shrewdest men.... >>

Every to-morrow brings its bread.... >>

Princes use men as the husbandman uses bees.... >>

A woman who accepts, sells herself; a woman who gives, surrenders.... >>

A house ready made and a wife to make.... >>

Other Proverbs

Those who have fine clothes in their chests can wear rags.... (Italian) >>

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your frien... (Latin) >>

The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom.... (Spanish) >>

For all one's early rising, it dawns none the sooner.... (Spanish) >>

I dance to the tune that is played.... (Spanish) >>

One cannot be in two places at once.

- French Proverb