More French Proverbs

A gaunt brute bites sore.... >>

You cannot make a hawk of a buzzard.... >>

It is only good bargains that ruin.... >>

Ask no questions and hear no lies.... >>

Ask my comrade, who is as great a liar as myself.... >>

Other Proverbs

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

Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.... (English) >>

Let them talk of men, and beg of me.... (Spanish) >>

A north wind has no corn, and a poor man no friend.... (Spanish) >>

Better lose a supper than have a hundred physicians.... (Spanish) >>

When the devil says his paternosters he means to cheat you.

- French Proverb