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| French Proverb - H
Half figs, half raisins.Handsomely asked, handsomely refused.Happy is the man who has a handsome wife close to an abbey.Happy the child whose father goes to the devil.Hares are not caught by the sound of the drum.Hasten leisurely.Hatred watches while friendship sleeps.He asks advice in vain who will not follow it.He beat the bushes and another caught the birds.He cannot be a friend to any one who is his own enemy.He carries fire and water.He does a good day's work who rids himself of a fool.He does not guard himself well who is not always on his guard.He expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his mouth.He falls on his back and breaks his nose.He fishes on who catches one.He flays enough who holds the foot.He forgot nothing except to say farewell.He gains enough who loses sorrow.He goes safely who has nothing.He had need rise early who would please everybody.He has a good pledge of the cat who has her skin.He has eaten his corn in the blade.He has enough to do who holds the handle of a frying-pan.He has enough who is content.He has great need of a fool who makes himself one.He has not done who is beginning.He has nothing who has not enough.He has put all his eggs into one basket.He is a fool who makes a mallet of his fist.He is a fool who makes his physician his heir.He is a great fool who forgets himself.He is a horse with four white feet (i.e., he is unlucky).He is a thief indeed who robs a thief.He is a very bad manager of honey who leaves nothing to lick off his fingers.He is called clever who cheats and plunders his friend.He is like a cat, he always falls on his feet.He is like a singed cat, better than he looks.He is like the gardener's dog, who don't eat cabbage and will let no one else eat them.He is not escaped who drags his chain.He is not so much of a devil as he is black.He is past preaching to who does not care to do well.He is rich enough who owes nothing.He is the devil's valet, he does more that he is ordered.He is the wisest man who does not think himself so.He knows enough who knows how to live and keep his own counsel.He lies like a toothdrawer.He looks for his ass and sits on its back.He may lie boldly who comes from afar.He may swim boldly who is held up by the chin.He needs say nothing about the score who pays nothing.He never was a friend who has ceased to be one.He pays dear for honey who licks it off thorns.He pays for the glasses who breaks them.He plays well that wins.He pulls at a long rope who desires another's death.He puts his sickle into another man's harvest.He ruins himself in promises, and clears himself by giving nothing.He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it.He sleeps securely who has nothing to lose.He slumbers enough who does nothing.He sups ill who eats up all at dinner.He that corrects not youth, controls not age.He that does not ask will never get a bargain.He that has not money in his purse should have honey in his mouth.He that hath a wife is sure of strife.He that hides can find.He that holds the handle of a frying-pan runs the risk of burning himself.He that hunts two hares will catch neither.He that is ashamed to eat is ashamed to live.He that is thrown would still wrestle.He that is too much in haste, may stumble on a good road.He that laughs on Friday may cry on Sunday.He that saveth his dinner will have the more for his supper.He that spends more than he is worth spins a rope for his own neck.He that stays in the valley will not get over the hill.He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace.He that that hath a head of wax must not approach the fire.He that ventures not fails not.He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut.He was born on a Sunday, he likes work ready done.He was born with a caul.He wears the mourning of his washerwoman.He who begins and does not finish loses his labour.He who bestirs himself sucks up, he who lies still dries up.He who can give has many a good neighbour.He who can lick can bite.He who cannot speak well of his trade does not understand it.He who carries nothing loses nothing.He who carries one burden will soon carry a hundred.He who chooses takes the worst.He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.He who dispraises a thing, wants to buy it.He who does not bait his hook fishes in vain.He who does not gain loses.He who does not tire, tires adversity.He who does nothing does ill.He who eats of the king's goose will void a feather forty years after.He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.He who gets out of debt enriches himself.He who goes abroad by day has no need of a lantern.He who goes everywhere gains everywhere.He who goes to collect wool may come back shorn.He who grasps too much holds not firmly.He who has a companion has a master.He who has daughters is always a shepherd.He who has drunk will drink.He who has his purse full preaches to the poor man.He who has money has capers.He who has not health has nothing.He who has nothing fears nothing.He who hold the thread holds the ball.He who holds his tongue does not commit himself.He who holds the handle of the frying-pan turns it as he pleases.He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull.He who is at sea does not direct the winds.He who is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.He who judges between two friends loses one of them.He who listens at doors hears more than he desires.He who lives long knows what pain is.He who looks not before finds himself behind.He who loses his temper is in the wrong.He who loses sins.He who marries for love has good nights and bad days.He who never budges from Paris will never be pope.He who never undertook anything never achieved anything.
[Fr. Qui onques rien n'enprist riens n'achieva.]He who never undertook anything never achieved anything.
[Fr. Qui onques rien n'enprist riens n'achieva.]He who passes a winter's day passes one of his mortal enemies.He who pays is fairly entitled to speak his mind.He who pays well is well served.He who quits his place loses it.He who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all.He who rides on the giant's shoulders sees further than he who carries him.He who rides the mule shoes her.He who sees leather cut asks for a thong.He who sows thistles reaps thorns.He who stops at every stone never gets to his journey's end.He who takes a wife takes a master.He who threatens is afraid.He who torments others does not sleep well.He who trusts a woman and leads an ass will never be free from plague.He who turns aside avoids danger.He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going barefoot.He who waits for another man's trencher often dines in imagination (or with Duke Humphrey).He who wants to be rich in a year is hanged at six months' end.He who wants to travel far takes care of his beast.He who wishes to live at Rome must not quarrel with the pope.He who wishes to make a golden door drives a nail into it every day.He will not lose his oats for want of braying.He'll laugh well that laughs longest.He, who kennels with wolves, must howl.Help thyself and heaven will help thee.His horse's head is too big, it cannot get out of the stable.His like Jean de Nivelle's dog, that runs away when he is called.Honest poverty is thinly sown.Honey is not for asses.Honour blossoms on the grave.Horse, don't die yet, grass is coming.Horses run after benefices and asses get them.Hunger looks in at the industrious man's door but dares not enter.Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue. |
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