French Proverb
75 quotations
Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
Who loves well, chastises well.
Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
A surgeon should be young a physician old.
One may go a long way after one is tired.
Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
I know by my own pot how the others boil.
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)
Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.
A father is a banker provided by nature.
People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.
A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
Against change of fortune set a brave heart.
Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering.
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.
Without grace beauty is an unabated hook.
Gratitude is the heart's memory.
Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.