More French Proverbs

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

From short pleasure long repentance.... >>

A man who has but one eye must take good care of it.... >>

A father is a banker provided by nature.... >>

Ill-luck is good for something.... >>

Other Proverbs

Yesterday a cowherd, to-day a cavalier.... (Spanish) >>

Don't fall before you're pushed... (Philippine) >>

To be a merchant, the art consists more in getting paid than... (Spanish) >>

When flatterers meet the devil goes to dinner.... (Spanish) >>

Where shall the ox go and not plough?... (Spanish) >>

Some have bread who have no teeth left.

- French Proverb