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
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