The silence of the people is a warning for the king.
—French Proverb
Topics: Silence, Kings
Everything must have a beginning.
—French Proverb
Topics: Beginning
It’s all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.
—French Proverb
Topics: Work
Dogs that always fight always have bleeding ears.
—French Proverb
Topics: Fighting
When all other sins are old, greed still stays young.
—French Proverb
The patient one always wins.
—French Proverb
Topics: Patience
The tools to him who has the ability to handle them.
—French Proverb
Topics: Ability
It’s good to be clever, but not to show it.
—French Proverb
Topics: Intellectuals, Intelligence, Cleverness
The rich man has more relations than he knows about.
—French Proverb
Justifying a fault doubles it.
—French Proverb
Topics: Excuses, Proverbs
Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.
—French Proverb
The graveyards are full of young lawyers, lost inheritance and young doctors.
—French Proverb
Topics: Lawyers, Inheritance, Death
Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
—French Proverb
Topics: Medicine
A clear conscience is a good pillow.
—French Proverb
Topics: Conscience
It’s not what you say but the way you say it.
—French Proverb
Topics: Communication
Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
—French Proverb
Topics: Youth, Proverbs
It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.
—French Proverb
Topics: Faith, Belief
The usual choice is not between the good and the bad but between the bad and the worse.
—French Proverb
Topics: Evil
Stolen bread stirs the appetite.
—French Proverb
Topics: Appetite
For some of us happiness comes while we sleep.
—French Proverb
Topics: Happiness, Sleeping
There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.
—French Proverb
Topics: Misfortunes, Fortune
Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
—French Proverb
Topics: Hope
No one is expected to achieve the impossible.
—French Proverb
Topics: Expectations, Awareness, Acceptance, Realistic Expectations, Realization
It is impossible to overdo luxury
—French Proverb
Topics: Luxury, Proverbs
Tell me whom you frequent, and I will tell you who you are.
—French Proverb
Topics: Friendship
Love teaches even asses to dance.
—French Proverb
Topics: Motivation
No sauce like appetite.
—French Proverb
Topics: Appetite
Even the king does not dine twice.
—French Proverb
Topics: Kings
A lawyer needs three bags: one full of papers, one full of money, and one full of patience.
—French Proverb
Topics: Lawyers
Women believe the strangest of lies as long as they are wrapped up in praise.
—French Proverb
Topics: Lies
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