French Proverbs Proverbs Quotations

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

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

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

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

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

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

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

People count the faults of those who keep them waiting.

A wise fox will never rob his neighbours hen roost.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

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

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