French Proverbs, Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
1,468 French Proverbs
To rude words deaf ears.
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To rule the mountains is to rule the river.
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To scare a bird is not the way to catch it.
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To see it rain is better than to be in it.
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To squeeze an eel too hard is the way to lose it.
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To the devil with so many masters, said the toad to the harrow.
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To the jaundiced all things seem yellow.
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To want to forget something is to remember it.
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To wash an ass's head is but loss of time and soap. (To reprove
a fool is but lost labour.)
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To whom do you offer your shells for sale? To people who come
from Saint Michel (where shells abound).
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Too keen an edge does not cut, too fine a point does not pierce.
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Too late the bird cries out when it is caught.
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Too late to grieve when the chance is past.
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Too much scratching smarts, too much talking harms.
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Too much water drowned the miller.
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Too much zeal spoils all.
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Too to will in two.
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Touch not another man's money, for the most honest never added to
it.
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Tough times don't last but tough people do.
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Trade follows the flag.
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Trade knows neither friends or kindred.
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Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.
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Tread on a worm and it will turn.
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Trickery comes back to its master.
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Trim my beard, and I will trim your top-knot.
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