More French Proverbs

A favour ill placed is great waste.... >>

Empty casks make the most noise.... >>

Don't make an oven of your cap or a garden of your belly.... >>

A hungry dog is not afraid of a cudgelling.... >>

Great boaster, little doer.... >>

Other Proverbs

To a hard knot a hard wedge.... (Spanish) >>

A little gall embitters much honey.... (Spanish) >>

He who always tells me a lie never cheats me.... (Spanish) >>

Every one speaks of the fair as he himself finds it.... (Spanish) >>

The old wife, if she does not serve for a pot, serves for a ... (Spanish) >>

The devil was so fond of his children that he plucked out their eyes.

- French Proverb