More French Proverbs

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.... >>

Pity is akin to love.... >>

One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoidi... >>

Who eats capon, capon comes to him.... >>

Punctuality is the sole of business.... >>

Other Proverbs

Raise ravens and they will peck our your eye.... (Spanish) >>

Between two stools one falls to the ground.... (Spanish) >>

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box... (Arab) >>

When a peasant gets rich, he knows neither relations nor fri... (Spanish) >>

He who does good to you either dies or goes away.... (Spanish) >>

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.

- French Proverb