Quotes by Proverb, French

"Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first."

Proverb, French on deeds and good deeds   

"One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it."

Proverb, French on destiny
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"He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned."

Proverb, French on destiny
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"Who loves well, chastises well."

Proverb, French on discipline   

"Divorce is the sacrament of adultery."

Proverb, French on divorce
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"A surgeon should be young a physician old."

Proverb, French on doctors   

"One may go a long way after one is tired."

Proverb, French on effort   

"Nothing is more elegant than ready money!"

Proverb, French on elegance   

"I know by my own pot how the others boil."

Proverb, French on experience   

"Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny."

Proverb, French on fame   

"Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)"

Proverb, French on farewells
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"Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical."

Proverb, French on fashion   

"A father is a banker provided by nature."

Proverb, French on fathers   

"People always make the wolf more formidable than he is."

Proverb, French on fear   

"A good meal ought to begin with hunger."

Proverb, French on food and eating   

"Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have."

Proverb, French on food and eating   

"Against change of fortune set a brave heart."

Proverb, French on fortune   

"Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair."

Proverb, French on gambling   

"There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing."

Proverb, French on gambling   

"He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering."

Proverb, French on gifts   

"Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth."

Proverb, French on glutton   

"No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere."

Proverb, French on goals   

"In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?"

Proverb, French on government   

"Without grace beauty is an unabated hook."

Proverb, French on grace   

"Gratitude is the heart's memory."

Proverb, French on gratitude
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"Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat."

Proverb, French on honesty   

"He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot."

Proverb, French on hope
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"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."

Proverb, French on hope
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"It's good to be clever, but not to show it."

Proverb, French on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Fear is a great inventor."

Proverb, French on invention and inventor   

"Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease."

Proverb, French on laughter   

"A good lawyer is a bad neighbor."

Proverb, French on law and lawyers   

"When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow."

Proverb, French on leadership   

"Liberty has no crueler enemy than license."

Proverb, French on liberty   

"Great talker, great liar."

Proverb, French on lies and lying   

"Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it."

Proverb, French on life
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"None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power."

Proverb, French on arrogance   

"In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek."

Proverb, French on love
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"There are more fools among buyers than among sellers."

Proverb, French on market   

"Marriage is the sunset of love."

Proverb, French on marriage