A party of two is that of God; of three of the king; of four is of the devil.
—French Proverb
Topics: Party
Long absence changes friends.
—French Proverb
Topics: Change, Absence
When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.
—French Proverb
Topics: Instincts, Reason
Without grace, beauty is an unbaited hook.
—French Proverb
Topics: Grace, Beauty
He who marries on a rainy day will be happy for the rest of his life.
—French Proverb
Topics: Rain
Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.
—French Proverb
Topics: Goodness, Deeds, Good Deeds
He who spits in the air pollutes himself.
—French Proverb
Authority has no partner.
—French Proverb
Women believe the strangest of lies as long as they are wrapped up in praise.
—French Proverb
Topics: Lies
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
—French Proverb
Topics: Home
He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering.
—French Proverb
Topics: Gifts
One must bless the new moon when it is visible in the sky.
—French Proverb
Topics: Blessings
Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
—French Proverb
Topics: Eating, Appetite, Food
Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.
—French Proverb
Topics: Cheating, Honesty
A closed mouth catches no flies.
—French Proverb
Topics: Speaking, Speakers
Marriage teaches you to live alone.
—French Proverb
Topics: Marriage
A girl without a friend is like the spring without roses.
—French Proverb
Topics: Girls
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
—French Proverb
Topics: Reform, Correction
Flying birds have no master.
—French Proverb
Topics: Flying
When all other sins are old, greed still stays young.
—French Proverb
He has not done who is beginning.
—French Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
—French Proverb
Topics: Youth, Proverbs
Good advice is as good as an eye in the hand.
—French Proverb
Topics: Advice
No sauce like appetite.
—French Proverb
Topics: Appetite
Example is the greatest of all seducers.
—French Proverb
Topics: Example
Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk.
—French Proverb
Topics: Joy, Wine, Drunkenness
To turn an obstacle to one’s advantage is a great step towards victory.
—French Proverb
Topics: Adversity, Victory, Difficulties
Where the woman goes the devil follows.
—French Proverb
Topics: Follow
The long awaited Easter feast is over in one day.
—French Proverb
A healthy soul cannot live in a dry body.
—French Proverb
Topics: The Body
He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it
—French Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Sin
The first love letters are written with the eyes.
—French Proverb
Topics: Letters, Eyes
Rust wastes more than use.
—French Proverb
Topics: Waste
There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.
—French Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Enemy
There is no flying without wings.
—French Proverb
Topics: Flying
Dogs that always fight always have bleeding ears.
—French Proverb
Topics: Fighting
A good figure is better than a reference letter.
—French Proverb
Topics: Letters
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
—French Proverb
Topics: Destiny, Proverbs
A late Easter, a long cold spring.
—French Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
We must learn from life how to suffer it.
—French Proverb
Topics: Perseverance, Resolve, Endurance