French Proverbs, Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
1,468 French Proverbs
Mastiff never liked greyhound.
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Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.
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May and December never agree.
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May chickens come cheeping.
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Men are rare.
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Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.
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Men's skins have many colors, but human blood is always red.
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Mention not a rope in the house of one whose father was hanged.
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Might knows no right.
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Might overcomes right.
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Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot.
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Misfortune upon misfortune is not wholesome.
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Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each
is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants
to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the
disposition.
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Money advances meacocks.
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Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.
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Money burns many.
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Money is a good servant but a had master.
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Money is lost only for want of money.
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Money is round, it must roll.
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Money makes dogs dance.
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Money makes money.
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Money makes the mare to go.
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Mother's love is ever in its spring.
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Much kindred, much trouble.
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Much memory and little judgment.
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