More French Proverbs

Policy goes beyond strength.... >>

A dog may look at a bishop.... >>

A vicious dog must be tied short.... >>

At a bridge, a plank, a river, the servant foremost, the master behind... >>

Youth must be served.... >>

Other Proverbs

When a thing is done, advice comes too late... (Confucius) >>

Love is an excuse for its own faults.... (Italian) >>

Gifts break (or dissolve) rocks.... (Spanish) >>

Away with thee, sickness, to where they make a good pillow f... (Spanish) >>

He who puts up with insult invites injury... (Italian) >>

Who does not venture gets neither horse nor mule, and who ventures too much lose horse and mule.

- French Proverb