More French Proverbs

A silver hammer breaks an iron door.... >>

No fishing like fishing in the sea.... >>

Everything goes to him who does not want it.... >>

Fair is he that comes, but fairer he that brings.... >>

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

Other Proverbs

He who steals once is never trusty.... (Spanish) >>

Give orders and do no more, and nothing will come of it.... (Spanish) >>

When the sun is highest it casts the least shadow.... (Italian) >>

There is luck in leisure.... (Spanish) >>

A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom.... (Spanish) >>

To the devil with so many masters, said the toad to the harrow.

- French Proverb