A girl without a friend is like the spring without roses.
—French Proverb
Topics: Girls
The first step binds one to the second.
—French Proverb
Topics: Action
Don’t dance on a volcano.
—French Proverb
Topics: Dance, Caution
Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
—French Proverb
Topics: Eating, Appetite, Food
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
—French Proverb
Topics: Reality, Opportunities, Contentment, Exaggeration
There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.
—French Proverb
Topics: Enemy, Proverbs
The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.
—French Proverb
Topics: Men, Proverbs, Reputation
Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.
—French Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Fashion
Despair doubles our strength.
—French Proverb
Topics: Strength
Widows comfort themselves when they remarry, widowers take revenge.
—French Proverb
Topics: Revenge
None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
—French Proverb
Topics: Pride
Without grace, beauty is an unbaited hook.
—French Proverb
Topics: Beauty, Grace
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
—French Proverb
Topics: Fate, Destiny
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.
—French Proverb
Topics: Fools
Why kill time when one can employ it.
—French Proverb
Topics: Time Management, Time
Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk.
—French Proverb
Topics: Joy, Drunkenness, Wine
The long awaited Easter feast is over in one day.
—French Proverb
Partir, c’est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)
—French Proverb
Topics: Last Words
When we don’t have what we like, we must like what we have.
—French Proverb
Topics: Satisfaction
When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.
—French Proverb
Topics: Instincts, Reason
They forgive the wine but they hang the bottle.
—French Proverb
Topics: Forgiveness
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
—French Proverb
Topics: Gambling
One can go a long way after one is tired.
—French Proverb
Topics: Effort, Resolve, Perseverance, Endurance
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
—French Proverb
The usual choice is not between the good and the bad but between the bad and the worse.
—French Proverb
Topics: Evil
Even the king does not dine twice.
—French Proverb
Topics: Kings
Better beloved than admired.
—French Proverb
Topics: Admiration
Love does wonders, but money makes marriages.
—French Proverb
Topics: Marriage
Build a golden bridge for the fleeing enemy.
—French Proverb
Topics: Enemies
When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.
—French Proverb
Topics: Blessings, Gratitude, Appreciation