French Proverbs Proverb Quotations

A wise fox will never rob his neighbours hen roost.

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.

Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.

Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)

People count the faults of those who keep them waiting.

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.

One may go a long way after one is tired.