849 Sayings of French Origin

1. "Everyone blames his memory, but never his judgment." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "Fools never get grey hair." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "The best soup is made of old meat." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "The attack tames the beast." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "Dogs that always fight always have bleeding ears." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "A cow from afar gives plenty of milk." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "While the grass grows the steed starves." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "Those who are absent are always wrong." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "Nature is beyond all teaching." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "No enemies is a sign fortune forgotten you." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "Fools are more useful to the wise than wise are to fools." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "To compare is not to prove." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "He who steals an egg will steal an ox." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "If you want to keep your credit you must use it as little as possible." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "It's not what you do it's the way that you do it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "There is a pinch of the madman in every great man." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "Money is a good servant but a bad master." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "Let sleeping dogs lie." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "The shoemaker goes barefoot." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "One pleasure, a thousand pains." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "More haste, less speed." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "Bad merchandise is never cheap." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "A woman like a horse needs spurs." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "You can sell the devil if he is well cooked." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "Only great men may have great faults." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "One must learn to be bored." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "So many mates; so many enemies." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "One must bless the new moon when it is visible in the sky." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "I sing the song of the person whose bread I eat." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "An old ape never made a pretty grimace." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never is." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "A golden key opens any gate but that of heaven." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "Man is the only mammal that can be skinned more than once." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "A day is lost if one has not laughed." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "It is a hard winter when one wolf eats another." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "Give neither salt nor counsel till you are asked for it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "One finds little ingratitude so long as one is in a position to grant favors." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "A sin confessed is half forgiven." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "Good blood always shows itself." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "Love me, love my dog." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "Grass will not grow on a volcano." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "He who sows everywhere harvests nowhere." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "What the sober man thinks the drunkard tells." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "Quick judgments are dangerous." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "To be a fool at the right time is an art." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "However treacherous the sea may be, women are still more so." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "I love my friends, but myself better." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "Early ripe, early rotten." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "When you are rich you suffer in a more comfortable way." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

57. "When a man stops thinking he stops feeling." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "One today is worth two tomorrows." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "The graveyards are full of young lawyers, lost inheritance and young doctors." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

60. "They who would be young when they are old must be old when they are young." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

61. "The heart sees farther than the head." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

62. "He who sows the seed of discord works in the devil's barn." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

63. "He who dispraises a thing wants to buy it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

64. "The chicken that crows the loudest does not always give the biggest eggs." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

65. "Men are like fish, the big ones devour the small." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

66. "A woman's heart dries quicker than her tears." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

67. "They are not free who drag their chains behind them." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

68. "A mother can more easily feed seven children than seven children can feed one mother." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

69. "The communal donkey gets the heaviest burden." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

70. "Too many doctors too few medicines." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

71. "Paris is owned by the early risers." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

72. "There are toys for all ages." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

73. "Divide and conquer." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

74. "None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

75. "We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

76. "Justifying a fault doubles it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

77. "When one door closes another opens." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

78. "The soup makes the soldier." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

79. "Those who envy die, but envy stays alive." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

80. "A door must either be open or shut." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

81. "For most people love of justice is no more than the fear to suffer injustice." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

82. "He who sells the ox sets its price." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

83. "You never get clean flour from a coal sack." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

84. "Love does wonders, but money makes marriages." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

85. "Fields have eyes and woods have ears." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

86. "Without grace beauty is an unabated hook." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

87. "If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

88. "Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

89. "The ugliest tomcat always has the most beautiful mate." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

90. "Such father, such sons." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

91. "Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

92. "Young saints, old devils." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

93. "Vice hides under a cloak of virtue." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

94. "A good name is the best of all treasures." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

95. "A dog with a docked tail is not afraid that its backside can be seen." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

96. "A sin that is hidden is half forgiven." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

97. "It is a long day, a day without bread." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

98. "It is only idle people who can find time for everything." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

99. "It is the belief in roses that makes them flourish." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

100. "Who is born a chicken loves scratching." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

101. "Time makes love pass." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

102. "A good lawyer is a bad neighbor." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

103. "You have to give time some time." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

104. "A day without wine is like a day without sunshine." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

105. "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

106. "Trust is the mother of exasperation." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

107. "Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

108. "Half an egg is better than an empty eggcup." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

109. "Loving with the eyes only, has blinded a lot of fools." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

110. "If you have a good case, try to compromise; if you have a bad one, take it to court." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

111. "Repetition is the mother of memory." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

112. "Widows comfort themselves when they remarry, widowers take revenge." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

113. "Marriage teaches you to live alone." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

114. "He who leaves the game, loses." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

115. "The love that you die from is too big." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

116. "For a wise man a fool is a good advisor." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

117. "The longer the way, the more tired the man." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

118. "Travelers from afar can lie with impunity." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

119. "Bread and wine start a banquet." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

120. "If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

121. "Opportunity knocks only once." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

122. "Good advice is as good as an eye in the hand." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

123. "Nothing is more expensive than the first beer." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

124. "Pride can only lose." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

125. "A good burgundy does a lot for women, especially when men drink it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

126. "You can cage a bird but you can't make it sing." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

127. "You hear little from the drummer that is paid in advance." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

128. "There are two great pleasures in gambling, that of winning and that of losing." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

129. "Love me little, love me long." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

130. "Bad news has wings." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

131. "To wish to know is to wish to doubt." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

132. "To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

133. "A party of one alone is not a party." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

134. "The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

135. "Crooked logs make straight fires." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

136. "A scalded cat fears cold water." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

137. "There is no science without patience." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

138. "It is only the first bottle that is expensive." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

139. "Might is always right." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

140. "A dog may look at a bishop." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

141. "Love subdues everything, except the felon heart." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

142. "Women believe the strangest of lies as long as they are wrapped up in praise." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

143. "A golden bit does not make the horse any better." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

144. "Mean fathers, wasteful sons." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

145. "Marriage is the sunset of love." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

146. "A party of two is that of God; of three of the king; of four is of the devil." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

147. "It is more disgraceful to suspect our friends than to be deceived by them." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

148. "Pray, pray very much; but beware of telling God what you want." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

149. "What everybody says must be true." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

150. "A clown enriched knows neither relation nor friend." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

151. "The burden tames the beast." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

152. "They will be hushed by a good deed who laugh at a wise speech." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

153. "It is not the hen who cackles the loudest who hatches the most eggs." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

154. "What is done no longer needs to be done." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

155. "You can't judge a book by its cover." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

156. "Between man and woman there is little difference, but vive la difference." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

157. "You must give credit to coincidence." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

158. "The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

159. "A beggar is never out of his road." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

160. "The cart ruins the road, the woman the man, the water the wine." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

161. "Silence is the soul of all things." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

162. "No one knows where the shoe pinches, but he who wears it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

163. "You dance better with a full belly than with a new dress." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

164. "A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

165. "Even the smallest little bush casts some shadow." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

166. "Religious contention is the devil's harvest." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

167. "Really to stop criticism one must die." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

168. "The absent are always in the wrong." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

169. "He that will not endure the bitter, will not live to see the sweet." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

170. "Don't change horses in midstream." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

171. "It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

172. "Wealth rarely brings happiness." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

173. "Honey in the mouth, bile in the heart." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

174. "What goes around comes around." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

175. "It's the exception that proves the rule." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

176. "He had need rise early who would please everybody." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

177. "Tell a woman once she is beautiful and the devil will repeat it ten times." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

178. "Practice makes perfect." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

179. "A man is no happier than he thinks himself." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

180. "A friend to my table and wine is no good neighbor." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

181. "A fool is always beginning." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

182. "Diligent youth makes easy age." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

183. "A little absence does a lot of good." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

184. "I know by my own pot how the others boil." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

185. "Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

186. "Gossipers are the devil's trumpeters." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

187. "We make big promises to avoid little presents." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

188. "Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

189. "Misfortunes come on horseback and depart on foot." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

190. "Whom God will destroy, he first make mad." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

191. "In wine there is truth." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

192. "Do not let grass grow on the path of friendship." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

193. "To be willing is to be able." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

194. "It is better to be the hammer than the anvil." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

195. "Men talk only to conceal the mind." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

196. "If you don't want to be deceived, then marry on February 30th." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

197. "He that does not ask will never get a bargain." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

198. "What you love is always beautiful." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

199. "A fault denied is twice committed." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

200. "Penny wise is often pound foolish." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

201. "Do not think that one enemy is insignificant, or that a thousand friends are too many." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

202. "There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

203. "Better ten people hurt than one dead." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

204. "Bad charcoal only makes smoke." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

205. "There are no beautiful prisons or ugly loved ones." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

206. "Prices are forgotten, quality remains." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

207. "Fretting cares make grey hairs." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

208. "When the head is sick, the whole body is sick." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

209. "As you sow, so you shall reap." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

210. "The little fish will grow big." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

211. "Skeptics are never deceived." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

212. "If you give a gift to a rich man, the devil sniggers." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

213. "His own desire leads every man." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

214. "Where there's life, there's hope." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

215. "With money you can comfort any woman." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

216. "A coward often deals a mortal blow to the brave." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

217. "Books know more than years." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

218. "Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

219. "Men make laws; women make morals." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

220. "A foolish judge passes brief sentence." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

221. "A closed mouth catches no flies." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

222. "There is no dying by proxy." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

223. "A fair promise binds a fool." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

224. "Better be alone than in bad company." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

225. "People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

226. "Short reckonings make long friends." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

227. "He who wants to conquer lechery must flee from it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

228. "Rich people eat gold and shit lead." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

229. "Liberty has no crueler enemy than license." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

230. "Even the strongest person will find his master." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

231. "Repentance costs dear." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

232. "Money knows no jurisdiction." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

233. "A lawyer needs three bags, one full of papers, one full of money, and one full of patience." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

234. "When a man's friend marries, all is over between them." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

235. "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

236. "Think much, say little, write less." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

237. "A gilt bridle for an old mule." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

238. "Whores and thieves are always very pious." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

239. "If you live in Rome, don't quarrel with the Pope." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

240. "Where there's a will there's a way." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

241. "It's difficult to chain up an old dog." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

242. "All roads lead to Rome." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

243. "Nothing is such a heavy burden as a secret is." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

244. "The bird loves her own nest." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

245. "So much does one shout “Christmas” that at last it comes!" (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

246. "Whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

247. "Small brooks make big rivers." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

248. "Deep calls to deep." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

249. "He who is not with me is against me." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

250. "You cannot clear fog with a fan." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

251. "What you keep rots; what you give flourishes." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

252. "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

253. "Divorce is the sacrament of adultery." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

254. "One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

255. "It is more difficult for beautiful women to stay chaste." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

256. "It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

257. "A full belly sets a man jigging." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

258. "New brooms sweep clean." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

259. "A friend's meat is soon ready." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

260. "Where there's smoke, there's fire." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

261. "He who has two women loses his soul; he who has two houses loses his mind." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

262. "If it rains on the pastor it drops on the vicar." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

263. "The ear is the road to the heart." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

264. "Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

265. "Fish must swim three times, once in the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

266. "No man is indispensable." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

267. "The fool's mother is always pregnant." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

268. "It is easier to abstain than to restrain." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

269. "Gluttony kills more than the sword." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

270. "We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

271. "Barking dogs seldom bite." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

272. "A foolish woman is known by her finery." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

273. "Flying birds have no master." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

274. "It's a big wind that blows on small doors." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

275. "Well done is better than well said." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

276. "Dead lions do not roar." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

277. "Too much is never good; too little is never enough." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

278. "What was hard to endure is sweet to recall." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

279. "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

280. "Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

281. "Lead by example." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

282. "Old sins, new shame." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

283. "Better to hold with the hound than run with the hare." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

284. "A good cat deserves a good rat." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

285. "A brain is worth little without a tongue." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

286. "The friendship of a great man is like the shadow of a bush, soon gone." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

287. "He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

288. "A bad craftsman blames his tools." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

289. "Never trust a woman who mentions her virtue." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

290. "Unless Hell is full, no lawyer will ever be saved." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

291. "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

292. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

293. "Everybody to whom much is given, much is expected." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

294. "Take a woman's first advice and not her second." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

295. "Everything is worth its price." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

296. "All that glitters is not gold." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

297. "When in doubt, Gallop!" (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

298. "Our hairs are numbered." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

299. "The shortest follies are the best." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

300. "He who has everything is content with nothing." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

301. "In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

302. "To want to forget something is to remember it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

303. "Man proposes, God disposes; Everything in its season." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

304. "The servant of the devil does more than is asked for." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

305. "I cried when I was born and each day now I realize why." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

306. "There are more buyers than connoisseurs." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

307. "A good cock is always slim." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

308. "Better bread in the basket than a feather in your cap." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

309. "A liar should have a good memory." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

310. "The beauty of a woman does not make a man richer." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

311. "The wise do as much as they should, not as much as they can." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

312. "One is rated by others as he rates himself." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

313. "Love makes the world go round." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

314. "A clear conscience is a good pillow." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

315. "Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can be cooked together but they will never be tender." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

316. "The worst jests are those which are true." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

317. "You can catch more flies with a drop of honey than with a barrel of vinegar." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

318. "The long awaited Easter feast is over in one day." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

319. "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

320. "A goaded ass must trot." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

321. "Faith is half the battle." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

322. "Eavesdroppers hear no good of themselves." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

323. "For some of us happiness comes while we sleep." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

324. "Youth is wasted on the young." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

325. "Real love is when you don't have to tell each other." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

326. "A new broome sweepeth cleane." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

327. "Everyone should sweep before his own door." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

328. "Better a small fire that warms you than a big one that burns you." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

329. "Better foolish by all than wise by yourself." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

330. "Poverty is the reward of idleness." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

331. "You are either hammer or anvil." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

332. "Against change of fortune set a brave heart." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

333. "When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

334. "He who believes his wife too much will regret it in the end." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

335. "Loaning money causes loss of memory." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

336. "Where there is no temptation there is no glory." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

337. "It's good to be clever, but not to show it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

338. "Many a true words are spoken in jest." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

339. "A father is a banker provided by nature." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

340. "Why hide from God what the saints already know?" (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

341. "The best defense is a good offense." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

342. "One good argument is worth more than ten better ones." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

343. "The remedy is often worse than the disease; Burn not your house to rid it off the mouse." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

344. "Ill gotten goods never prosper." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

345. "Seekers of art; finders of the beggar's bag." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

346. "A nice wife and a back door oft make a rich man poor." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

347. "He who does not gain loses." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

348. "He who teaches, learns." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

349. "The rich man has more relations than he knows about." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

350. "Popularity is the small change of glory." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

351. "He who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

352. "When the blind man carries the banner, woe to those who follow." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

353. "One must step back to take a good leap." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

354. "Nothing speaks more eloquently than money." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

355. "A bird in hand is worth two in a bush." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

356. "Small profits are good if they come often." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

357. "There is no such thing as a pretty good omelet." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

358. "The less one thinks, the more one speaks." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

359. "One bad general is better than two good ones." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

360. "Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

361. "Everything comes to the man who does not need it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

362. "Hatred watches while friendship sleeps." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

363. "The first chapter of fools is to think themselves wise." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

364. "There is a remedy for everything except death." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

365. "A fat kitchen makes a lean will." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

366. "Nothing ages more than a good deed." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

367. "Strike while the iron is hot." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

368. "Buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

369. "The last will be first, and the first last." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

370. "A living dog is better than a dead lion." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

371. "Don't put the cart before the horse." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

372. "Better the second husband of a widow than the first." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

373. "The first love letters are written with the eyes." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

374. "The one with a running nose always wants to blow someone else's." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

375. "A bellyful is a bellyful." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

376. "The night brings counsel." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

377. "The law says what the king pleases." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

378. "Starlings are skinny because they fly in a group." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

379. "You must not run after two hares at the same time." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

380. "Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

381. "Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

382. "Don't dance on a volcano." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

383. "Wine has drowned more than the sea." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

384. "Love is often the fruit of marriage." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

385. "No clock is more regular than the belly." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

386. "A silent woman is a gift from God." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

387. "True love never rusts." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

388. "The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

389. "They who come from afar have leave to lie." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

390. "It is a sorry house in which the cock is silent and the hen crows." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

391. "When glory comes, memory departs." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

392. "To heaven for the music but to hell for a good conversation." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

393. "To enjoy life is worth so much more than it costs." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

394. "Money makes even dogs dance." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

395. "The worst is not always certain but it's very likely." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

396. "When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

397. "Men eat fish, thanks to the sauce." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

398. "Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

399. "It is at home, not in public, that one washes his dirty linen." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

400. "A woman would rather swallow her teeth than her tongue." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

401. "When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

402. "The devil sweetens another man's wife with a spoonful of honey." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

403. "He that will not when he may, when he will he may have nay." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

404. "Why kill time when one can employ it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

405. "Don't wash your dirty linen in public; It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

406. "A dead man has neither relations nor friends." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

407. "A saint that cannot cure anyone has few disciples." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

408. "The world is the book of women." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

409. "Lazy people are always eager to be doing something." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

410. "He that spends more than he is worth spins a rope for his own neck." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

411. "Every man thinks his own geese swans." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

412. "Friendship is love without wings." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

413. "When it rains it pours." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

414. "Don't make a mountain out of a molehill." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

415. "No one became poor by giving alms." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

416. "A man's worst enemies are often those of his own house." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

417. "Rich people never know who their friends are." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

418. "No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

419. "Better finger off as ay wagging." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

420. "Appearances deceives." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

421. "In a good family the husband is deaf and the wife blind." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

422. "Brevity is the soul of wit." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

423. "Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

424. "He who is born to be hanged shall never be drowned." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

425. "There's no accounting for tastes; Different strokes suit different folks." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

426. "Every art requires the whole person." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

427. "People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

428. "Who talks too much, nobody listens to." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

429. "So long as the wolf is captured the dog will bite his leg." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

430. "The cassock does not make the monk." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

431. "No one gets rich quickly if he is honest." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

432. "Good health is above wealth." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

433. "A bad workman never finds a good tool." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

434. "There are more thieves than gallows." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

435. "A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

436. "Let us get back to our sheep." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

437. "It is not enough to run; you must start on time." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

438. "Sometimes the cry of the animal is worse than the animal itself." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

439. "Nothing dries so fast as tears." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

440. "Nothing looks more like an honest man than a villain." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

441. "Being loved is the best way of being useful." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

442. "The secret of two people is God's secret, the secret of three people is everybody's secret." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

443. "A good mind possess a kingdom." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

444. "There are none so blind as they who will not see." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

445. "He who carries nothing loses nothing." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

446. "The head and feet keep warm; the rest will take no harm." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

447. "Don't have too many irons in the fire." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

448. "As you make your bed, so you must lie." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

449. "It's a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

450. "We are all a long time dead." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

451. "He who is hopeless is capable of everything." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

452. "Good swimmers are often drowned." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

453. "Envy takes no holiday." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

454. "A good meal ought to begin with hunger." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

455. "Words are feminine, deeds masculine." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

456. "All good women are in the graveyard." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

457. "Many enter the wood without an axe." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

458. "The same heat that melts wax, bakes clay." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

459. "Two sparrows on the same ear of corn are not long friends." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

460. "A cheerful wife is the spice of life." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

461. "A fool may give a wise man counsel." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

462. "Give the devil his due." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

463. "To taste the sweet, you must taste the bitter." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

464. "He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

465. "Small wells are better to quench your thirst." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

466. "Everybody has a hump when he stoops." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

467. "Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

468. "Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

469. "He that makes himself an ass must not take it ill if men ride him." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

470. "If you lose your wife and fifteen pennies, oh! what a pity about the money." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

471. "There is danger in delay." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

472. "After rain comes sunshine." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

473. "Nobility forces." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

474. "Eat with pleasure; drink with measure." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

475. "Where the woman goes the devil follows." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

476. "The weather, fleecy clouds, and a made up woman don't last long." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

477. "There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

478. "By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

479. "The world is a barrel, for all to draw from." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

480. "If you want to love your household as much as your bread then you will have to knead your wife like dough." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

481. "At night all cats are grey." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

482. "Comparisons are odious." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

483. "A swallow doesn't make the summer." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

484. "A good swordsman is not given to quarrel." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

485. "A blind hen can sometimes find her corn." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

486. "If the wine bothers you while you work, stop working." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

487. "You do not always have to believe what you see." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

488. "It is always the impossible that happens." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

489. "Who expects the bowl of others makes a poor dinner." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

490. "Out of sight, out of mind." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

491. "A smile shortens the distance." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

492. "The city that negotiates is half conquered." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

493. "Reason does not come before years." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

494. "Joy shared, joy doubled, sorrow shared, sorrow halved." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

495. "The sin is not in the sinning, but in the being found out." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

496. "He who has a stepmother has the devil at his hearth." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

497. "Don't harness the donkey and the horse together." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

498. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

499. "Love, smoke and cough are hard to hide." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

500. "To contradict means sometimes to knock at the door to see if anyone is at home." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

501. "Even the best mule still saves a kick for his master." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

502. "With the help of an "if" you might put Paris into a bottle." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

503. "A covetous woman deserves a swindling gallant." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

504. "He who lends to a friend loses twice." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

505. "Confidence begets confidence." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

506. "Love makes the time pass." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

507. "A man who is afraid of suffering suffers from fear itself." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

508. "It is good to dance on another man's floor." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

509. "Not every thunderclap is followed by lightning." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

510. "There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

511. "Some fathers love another man's daughter most." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

512. "A person is unlucky who falls on his back and breaks his nose." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

513. "Rats desert a sinking ship." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

514. "If you lend something you may lose it, but not if you give it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

515. "Courage is often caused by fear." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

516. "A stitch in time saves nine." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

517. "Who wishes to travel far spares his steed." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

518. "In your own company no one is boss." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

519. "Something that has happened once can happen again." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

520. "Long absence changes friends." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

521. "A glaring sunny morning, a woman that talks Latin, and a child reared on wine, never come to a good end." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

522. "It is easy to go on foot if you are holding your horse by the rein." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

523. "A dealer in onions is a good judge of scallions." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

524. "If there isn't too much, there is too little." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

525. "Tasty is the chicken that is fed by someone else." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

526. "Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

527. "Small gifts maintain friendship, big ones maintain love." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

528. "A full belly counsels well." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

529. "Sickness comes in like a horse and leaves like a snail." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

530. "Variety is the spice of life." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

531. "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

532. "Choosy pigs never get fat." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

533. "The apple does not fall far from the tree." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

534. "You always fall down in the direction of where you bend over." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

535. "Learning is the eye of the mind." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

536. "He who is waiting for someone else's bowl often dines late." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

537. "A churl never liked a gentleman." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

538. "Speech is silver, Silence is golden." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

539. "Old habits die hard." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

540. "If youth knew! If age could!" (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

541. "There is no worse water than still water." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

542. "Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

543. "When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

544. "A colt is good for nothing if it does not break its halter." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

545. "The patient one always wins." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

546. "He who fondles you more than usual has either deceived you or wants to." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

547. "Every little helps." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

548. "A girl without a friend is like the spring without roses." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

549. "Heaven helps those who help themselves." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

550. "When everybody is wrong then everybody is right." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

551. "You can't milk a bull." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

552. "There is no old bread that cannot find its cheese." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

553. "A friend in need is a friend indeed." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

554. "Every fox carries his tail his own way." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

555. "Who makes excuses, himself accuses." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

556. "No money, no Swiss." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

557. "Where the hostess is beautiful the wine is tasty." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

558. "The monk responds to the abbot's chants." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

559. "Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

560. "The chicken sings what the cock teaches him." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

561. "Where love sets the table food tastes at its best." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

562. "Every woman needs two men, one to be married to and the other to compare." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

563. "Men leap over where the hedge is lower." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

564. "If the seawater were hotter we could catch boiled fish." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

565. "He who excuses himself accuses himself." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

566. "You recognize the saint by his miracle." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

567. "Quick at meat, quick at work." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

568. "Patience is the virtue of the donkeys." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

569. "A good fox does not eat his neighbor's chickens." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

570. "Beautiful grapes often make poor wine." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

571. "Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

572. "Even the king does not dine twice." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

573. "Big winds, small showers." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

574. "Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

575. "There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

576. "Who has not served cannot command." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

577. "The urine of one dog will not pollute the ocean." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

578. "God who gives the wound gives the salve." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

579. "When all other sins are old, greed still stays young." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

580. "A good figure is better than a reference letter." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

581. "A girl unemployed is thinking of mischief." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

582. "One man alone is prey to the wolf." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

583. "Gratitude is the heart's memory." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

584. "A black hen lays a white egg." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

585. "He who marries for love has good nights and bad days." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

586. "The friends of our friends are our friends." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

587. "Deceit always returns to its master." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

588. "What orators lack in depth, they make up for in length." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

589. "Words are wasted on a starving man." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

590. "You only die once." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

591. "There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

592. "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

593. "A man without money is like a wolf without teeth." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

594. "Do as you may, if you can't do as you could." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

595. "When the cage is ready the bird is flown." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

596. "There are no women or horses without shortcomings." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

597. "No love without bread and wine." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

598. "The ball always looks for the best player." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

599. "You know a person by his nickname." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

600. "You are never better served than by yourself." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

601. "There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

602. "The art is to eat it with taste." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

603. "There's a pinch of the madman in every great man." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

604. "When he was fifteen the devil was a good looking boy." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

605. "Build a golden bridge for the fleeing enemy." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

606. "Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

607. "Walls have ears." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

608. "If you are going to eat with the devil, you must have a long spoon." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

609. "He who marries on a rainy day will be happy for the rest of his life." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

610. "Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

611. "Nothing is more contagious than a bad example." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

612. "Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

613. "Fear the man of one book." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

614. "A woman who dances too much gets ill from little work." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

615. "Small people always cast big shadows." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

616. "The silence of the people is a warning for the king." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

617. "All the treasures of the earth can't bring back one lost moment." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

618. "He that will not be counseled cannot be helped." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

619. "Who can't pretend cannot govern." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

620. "As changeable is the moon so is the opinion of the woman." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

621. "A fine girl and a tattered gown always find something to hook the them." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

622. "Where power reigns there is no room for reason." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

623. "Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

624. "Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

625. "Paper is forbearing." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

626. "Life is a dung pie from which you take a bite every day." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

627. "Mistrust is the mother of certainty." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

628. "Who loves well, chastises well." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

629. "What is learned in the cradle lasts to the grave." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

630. "What comes from the fife goes back to the drum." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

631. "Nothing is more elegant than ready money!" (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

632. "Life is half spent before one knows what life is." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

633. "You easily lend bread to the one who has flour." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

634. "Who rises late must trot all day." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

635. "People always make the wolf more formidable than he is." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

636. "It takes two to tango." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

637. "Bad is the best choice." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

638. "He who is near the Church is often far from God." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

639. "Such mother, such daughter." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

640. "Poets are born, but orators are trained." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

641. "He who seeks evil will find it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

642. "A crooked log makes a good fire." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

643. "He who is too proud to ask is too good to receive." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

644. "Do not play with edged tools." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

645. "He who has a wax head must not go near the fire." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

646. "Let him who is cold blow the fire." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

647. "Fear and restlessness kill more than do illnesses." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

648. "Most men employ the earlier part of their life to make the other miserable." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

649. "It is easier to climb down than up." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

650. "Who lends to a friend loses doubly." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

651. "To love is to choose." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

652. "A good armchair makes the backside soft and the heart hard." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

653. "There are more old drunkards than old doctors." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

654. "One may go a long way after one is tired." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

655. "Great boasters, little doers." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

656. "It is not wise to open old wounds." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

657. "He who does not advance goes backwards." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

658. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

659. "Glow worms are not lanterns." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

660. "Set a thief to catch a thief." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

661. "Don't burn the candles at both ends." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

662. "You can't get something for nothing." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

663. "He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

664. "The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

665. "Drumming is not the way to catch a hare." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

666. "Better fed than taught." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

667. "Snakes prefer to hide under flowers." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

668. "After us the deluge." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

669. "Fine feathers make fine birds." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

670. "The villain that becomes rich knows neither friends nor family." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

671. "Example is the greatest of all seducers." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

672. "Patience is bitter but its fruits are sweet." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

673. "Not until the tree is felled can you see how tall it was." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

674. "Night brings counsel." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

675. "Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if the one fails, the other may hold." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

676. "Only the truth hurts." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

677. "Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

678. "Ridicule kills." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

679. "Every age wants its playthings." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

680. "The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

681. "Only he who does nothing makes a mistake." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

682. "A big nose never spoiled a handsome face." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

683. "A bad beginning makes a bad ending." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

684. "Do not throw pearls before swine." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

685. "The tongue goes to where the tooth aches." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

686. "Second thoughts are best." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

687. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

688. "A beautiful maxim in the memory is like a piece of gold in the purse." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

689. "Men will only throw stones at trees that are laden with fruit." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

690. "Once a drunkard always a drunkard; Once a thief always a thief." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

691. "Better bow than break." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

692. "Every mother-in-law is a piece of the devil's pants." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

693. "No river swells without getting muddy." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

694. "The best thing about a man is his dog." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

695. "Anger is a bad adviser." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

696. "A drowning man clings to a blade of grass." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

697. "Every one for himself and God for us all." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

698. "Great talker, great liar." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

699. "When the kitchen maids are together the roast burns." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

700. "Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

701. "A fine cage won't feed the bird." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

702. "Conceal not the truth from thy physician and lawyer." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

703. "What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

704. "When you can't find peace within yourself, it's useless to seek it elsewhere." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

705. "He who is master of his thirst is master of his health." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

706. "What you lose in the fire, you will find amongst the ashes." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

707. "Short prayers reach heaven." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

708. "One nail drives out another." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

709. "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

710. "Every fool is pleased with his own folly." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

711. "Who knows nothing doubts nothing." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

712. "He who spits in the air pollutes himself." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

713. "Least said, soonest mended." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

714. "You only lend to rich people." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

715. "Ingratitude is the mother of every vice." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

716. "Old cats love young mice." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

717. "A fault confessed is a half redressed." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

718. "Desperate maladies require desperate remedies." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

719. "When the daughter dies, the son-in-law is dead as well." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

720. "The tiredness of the body is the health of the soul." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

721. "Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

722. "One dish does not feed two gluttons." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

723. "You cannot have the bacon and the pig at the same time." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

724. "If the sky falls, we shall catch larks." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

725. "When you have not what you like, you must like what you have." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

726. "Children have more need of models than critics." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

727. "There is no lock on the purse of a gambler." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

728. "Fortune favors the brave." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

729. "Charity begins at home." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

730. "Deal gently with the bird you mean to catch." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

731. "Beauty is silent eloquence." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

732. "Don't try to fly before you have wings." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

733. "We need to let the world go the way it is." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

734. "Fear is a great inventor." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

735. "A stingy man is always poor." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

736. "Better beloved than admired." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

737. "When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

738. "Put something sweet in his mouth and send good news to the heart." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

739. "Avoid the pleasure which will bite tomorrow." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

740. "Every doctor thinks his pills are the best." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

741. "God visits us often, but most of the time we are not home." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

742. "The torch of love is lit in the kitchen." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

743. "The bad man thinks that everybody looks like him." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

744. "Africa is a cold land where the sun is warm." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

745. "If you would understand men, study women." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

746. "A courtier should be without feeling and without honor." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

747. "Love teaches even asses to dance." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

748. "Life is like an onion, which one peels crying." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

749. "Man is preceded by forest and followed by desert." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

750. "A glutton is one who digs his grave with his teeth." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

751. "Common sense is not so common." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

752. "Absent people do not inherit." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

753. "The eye of the master fattens the steed." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

754. "Muddied water does not reflect." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

755. "The word of a woman is as a little feather on the water." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

756. "Marriages sealed with rings end with drawn knives." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

757. "The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

758. "Better safe than sorry." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

759. "All are not hunters who blow the horn." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

760. "Punishment is lame but it comes." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

761. "He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

762. "When the miller is also the mayor, there are two thieves in one pair of trousers." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

763. "Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

764. "No one can be the judge in his own case." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

765. "There is no little enemy." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

766. "Like will to like; birds of a feather flock together." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

767. "Diffidence is the right eye of prudence." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

768. "Don't slaughter more pigs than you can salt." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

769. "The maxims of men disclose their hearts." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

770. "A beggar on his feet is worth more than an emperor in his grave." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

771. "He that flees and runs away might live to see another day." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

772. "A problem shared is a problem halved." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

773. "The more things change, the more they stay the same." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

774. "They forgive the wine but they hang the bottle." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

775. "Where god has a church the devil will have his chapel." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

776. "Only a fool gets drunk from his own bottle." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

777. "You do not fatten pigs with pure water." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

778. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

779. "In love and war don't seek counsel." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

780. "The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and somtimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

781. "He who has much, wants more." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

782. "Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

783. "There once was a good mother-in-law but the wolf gobbled her up." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

784. "A surgeon should be young a physician old." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

785. "Ready money works great cures." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

786. "You cannot satisfy the whole world and your father." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

787. "You cannot be very smart if you have never done anything foolish." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

788. "A rolling stone gathers no moss." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

789. "A fool's head never whitens." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

790. "He that wants to keep his house clean must not let priest or pigeon into it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

791. "Discretion is the better part of valor." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

792. "Faint heart never won fair lady." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

793. "Jealousy is nourished by doubt." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

794. "Who falls short in the head must be long in the heels." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

795. "A healthy soul cannot live in a dry body." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

796. "Who risks nothing, gets nothing." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

797. "Honesty is the best policy." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

798. "If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

799. "Follow glory and it will flee, flee glory and it will follow thee." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

800. "Two times good, one time stupid." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

801. "He who marries a widow also marries her debts." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

802. "Take the will for the deed." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

803. "He who has no health has nothing." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

804. "Glutton, one who digs his grave with his teeth." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

805. "No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

806. "Like master, like man." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

807. "When sheep get angry they are worse than wolves." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

808. "If you want something done right, do it yourself." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

809. "A good bottle of wine does not need a cork." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

810. "There is no flying without wings." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

811. "Self, love is the worst of all flattery." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

812. "Wait until it is night before saying it has been a fine day." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

813. "Hope is the dream of a soul awake." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

814. "You often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

815. "Every why has a wherefore." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

816. "A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

817. "True love never grows old." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

818. "Every wise man is afraid of a fool." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

819. "Everything in time comes to him who knows how to wait." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

820. "Cut off your nose to spite your face." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

821. "Every priest recommends his relics." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

822. "Everyone thinks his own burden heavy." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

823. "Money is there to be spent." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

824. "The enemy never sleeps." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

825. "Desperate times call for desperate measures." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

826. "Many kiss the hand they wish cut off." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

827. "An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

828. "Where wine appears the doctor disappears." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

829. "You don't have to kill the chicken to get eggs." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

830. "A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

831. "There is one who kisses, and the other offers a cheek." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

832. "Even the tiniest little chapel has its saint." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

833. "A cow does not know what her tail is worth until she has lost it." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

834. "He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

835. "When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

836. "Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

837. "The best herbs are in the smallest bags." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

838. "That which proves too much, proves nothing." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

839. "Better to have a friend on the road than gold and silver in your purse." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

840. "If you do not have a head, you must have legs." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

841. "Economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the rich." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

842. "A woman and a melon are hard to choose." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

843. "No good dog barks without reason." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

844. "All is well that ends well." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

845. "Who is known as an early riser may sleep longer." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

846. "If we have not the thing we love, then must we love the thing we have." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

847. "When the woman wants something God quakes." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

848. "Authority has no partner." (French Sayings) Click to tweet

 

849. "You have to be rich to be able to live like a poor man." (French Sayings) Click to tweet