More French Proverbs

For one pleasure a thousand pains.... >>

To go as fast as a friar that is invited to dinner.... >>

Get out of that place and let me take it.... >>

Help thyself and heaven will help thee.... >>

He wears the mourning of his washerwoman.... >>

Other Proverbs

If I am a fool, put your finger in my mouth.... (Spanish) >>

One eye on the frying-pan and the other on the cat.... (Spanish) >>

Tell your own story first.... (Spanish) >>

The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world ... (American) >>

No need to seek shelter for an old ox.... (Spanish) >>

One often has need of a lesser than oneself.

- French Proverb