More French Proverbs

A courtier should be without feeling and without honour.... >>

The Italians cry, the Germans bawl, and the French sing.... >>

By working in the smithy one becomes a smith.... >>

If you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned.... >>

Fine dressing is a foul house, swept before the windows.... >>

Other Proverbs

The mouth and the purse, shut.... (Spanish) >>

Good fences make good neighbors... (Jewish) >>

Better wed over the mixen than over the moor.... (English) >>

To a hasty demand a leisure reply.... (Spanish) >>

Two blacks don't make a white.... (Spanish) >>

To want to forget something is to remember it.

- French Proverb