French Proverb

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

— French Proverb

None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

— French Proverb

The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.

— French Proverb

Don't dance on a volcano.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

Set a thief to catch a thief.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

— French Proverb

Who loves well, chastises well.

— French Proverb

Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.

— French Proverb

A surgeon should be young a physician old.

— French Proverb

One may go a long way after one is tired.

— French Proverb

Nothing is more elegant than ready money!

— French Proverb

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

— French Proverb

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.

— French Proverb

A father is a banker provided by nature.

— French Proverb

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

— French Proverb

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

Against change of fortune set a brave heart.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

Without grace beauty is an unabated hook.

— French Proverb

Gratitude is the heart's memory.

— French Proverb

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

— French Proverb

It's good to be clever, but not to show it.

— French Proverb

Fear is a great inventor.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

Liberty has no crueler enemy than license.

— French Proverb

Great talker, great liar.

— French Proverb

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.

— French Proverb

Marriage is the sunset of love.

— French Proverb

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

Penny wise is often pound foolish.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

— French Proverb

More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

One is rated by others as he rates himself.

— French Proverb

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

— French Proverb

Skeptics are never deceived.

— French Proverb

A closed mouth catches no flies.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

People count the faults of those who keep them waiting.

— French Proverb

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

— French Proverb

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

Why kill time when one can employ it.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

— French Proverb

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

— French Proverb

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

— French Proverb