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| French Proverb - I
I know by my own pot how the others boil.I love my friends well, but myself better.I never saw a silent rich man.I sing the song of the person whose bread I eat.If a man would learn to pray let him go often to sea.If it can lick, it can bite.If it only depends on swearing, the cow is ours.If the lion's skin cannot, the fox's shall.If the sky were to fall we should catch plenty of larks.If we pay for the music we will join in the dance.If wishes were true, shepherds would be kings.If wishes would bide, beggars would ride.If you cannot say it, point to it with your finger.If you have a sore eye wipe it with your elbow.If you would understand men, study women.If your head is made of butter, don't be a baker.If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.If youth knew! if age could!Ill-luck is good for something.In borrowing an angel, in repaying a devil.In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains.In marriage cheat who can.In the end it will be known who ate the bacon.In the fiddler's house every one is a dancer.In the kingdom of the blind men, those who are blessed with one eye are kings.In the tail lies the venom.In too much disputing truth is lost.In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears.Incense intoxicates and every one wishes for it.Ingratitude is the mother of every vice.Iron may be rubbed so long that it gets heated.It is a good horse that never stumbles.It is a sorry house in which the cock is silent and the hen crows.It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach.It is all one whether you are bit a dog or a bitch.It is always well to keep hold of your horse's bridle.It is at home, not in public, that one washes his dirty linen.It is better to be the first on one's race than the last (meanest).It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.It is better to bend than break.It is better to have to do with God than with his saints.It is better to leave the child's nose dirty than wring it off.It is easier to abstain than to restrain.It is easier to get away from the back than the bottom.It is folly to gape against an oven.It is good to beat a proud man when he is alone.It is good to have friends in all parts.It is in vain for a man to rise early who has the repute of lying in bed all the morning.It is in vain to lean the ox to the water if he is not thirsty.It is just that the priest should live by the altar.It is love that makes the world go round.It is loving too much to die of love.It is not enough to have cabbage, one must have something to grease it.It is not enough to run; one must start in time.It is not the big oxen that do the best day's work.It is not the greatest beauties that inspire the most profound passion.It is nothing at all, only a woman drowning.It is only at the tree loaded with fruit that people throw stones.It is only good bargains that ruin.It is only idle people who can find time for everything.It is only the bashful that lose.It is only the first bottle that is dear.It is pleasant enough going afoot when you lead your horse by the bridle.It is the master-wheel that makes the mill go round.It is the old cow's notion that she never was a calf.It is the sauce that makes the fish edible.It is the sauce that makes the fish edible.It is the tone that makes the music.It is too late for the bird to scream when it is caught.It is well to fly low on account of the branches.It is well to leave off playing when the game is at its best.It will not do to keep holidays before they come.It won't do to trifle with fire.It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day. |
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