French Proverbs, Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
1,468 French Proverbs
Snivelling folks always want to wipe other folks' noses.
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Soft words don't scotch the tongue.
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Soft words scald not the tongue.
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Some have bread who have no teeth left.
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Some have fine eyes and can't see a jot.
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Some sell and don't deliver.
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Some think they have done when they are only beginning.
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Some thinking to avenge their shame increase it.
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Some who mean only to warm, burn themselves.
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Something is better than nothing.
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Soon enough if well enough.
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Soon gained soon squandered.
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Spare to speak and spare to speed.
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Spare well and have to spend.
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Spit not in the well, you may have to drink its water.
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Stolen bread stirs the appetite.
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Stolen fruit is sweet.
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Stolen waters are sweet.
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Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.
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Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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Suspicion is the poison of friendship.
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Sussex won't be druv.
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Swim on and don't trust.
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Take a woman's first advice and not her second.
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Take an ox by his horn, a man by his word.
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