More French Proverbs

Wishes never filled the bag.... >>

A man travels as far in a day as a snail in a hundred years.... >>

Great boasters, little doers.... >>

He gains enough who loses sorrow.... >>

A gentlemen of Beauce who stays in bed till his breeches are mended.... >>

Other Proverbs

An old loan repaid is like finding something new.... (Russian) >>

He who has a bad wife can expect no happiness that can be so... (Spanish) >>

I thought to cross myself, and I put out my eye.... (Spanish) >>

The beast that goes well is never without some one to try hi... (Spanish) >>

Tell it her once, and the devil will tell it her ten times.... (Spanish) >>

Why buy a cow if you can get the milk for free.

- French Proverb