Quotes by Proverb, French

"Desperate maladies require desperate remedies."

Proverb, French on medicine   

"Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit."

Proverb, French on merit   

"There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them."

Proverb, French on miracles
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"Penny wise is often pound foolish."

Proverb, French on misers and misery   

"People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures."

Proverb, French on misfortunes   

"There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us."

Proverb, French on misfortunes   

"The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work."

Proverb, French on nationalities and nationalism   

"There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated."

Proverb, French on past   

"More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar."

Proverb, French on persuasion   

"Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged."

Proverb, French on prudence   

"The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings."

Proverb, French on punctuality   

"When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have."

Proverb, French on action
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"One is rated by others as he rates himself."

Proverb, French on self-esteem   

"A sin confessed is half forgiven."

Proverb, French on sin   

"Skeptics are never deceived."

Proverb, French on skepticism   

"A closed mouth catches no flies."

Proverb, French on speakers and speaking   

"He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention."

Proverb, French on speakers and speaking   

"Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume."

Proverb, French on beauty
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"To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so."

Proverb, French on belief
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"The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest."

Proverb, French on busyness
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"Don't dance on a volcano."

Proverb, French on caution   

"Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work."

Proverb, French on talent   

"People count the faults of those who keep them waiting."

Proverb, French on tardiness   

"Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls."

Proverb, French on time   

"Life is half spent before one knows what it is."

Proverb, French on time   

"Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away."

Proverb, French on time
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"Why kill time when one can employ it."

Proverb, French on time   

"We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it."

Proverb, French on value   

"It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way."

Proverb, French on wealth
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"Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want."

Proverb, French on work   

"Youth lives on hope, old age on memories."

Proverb, French on youth   

"If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength."

Proverb, French on youth   

"It is better to be the hammer than the anvil."

Proverb, French on action   

"He who is near the Church is often far from God."

Proverb, French on churches
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"A good swordsman is not given to quarrel."

Proverb, French on conflict   

"What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others."

Proverb, French on contentment   

"By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof."

Proverb, French on correction
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"Set a thief to catch a thief."

Proverb, French on crime and criminals   

"Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat."

Proverb, French on crime and criminals