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French Proverb Quotes
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Famous French Proverb Quotations
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French is a Romance language globally spoken by about 77 million people as a first language (mother tongue), by 190 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 57 countries
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- A crow is no whiter for being washed.
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- A father is a banker provided by nature.
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- A white wall is the fool's paper.
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- Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
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- Anger is a bad counselor.
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- Better the foot slip than the tongue.
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- Everyone thinks his own burden heavy.
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- Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
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- Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks. (tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse)
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- From word to deed is a great space.
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- Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.
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- He is rich who owes nothing.
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- He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
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- He that seeks trouble never misses.
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- He who survives will see the outcome.
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- Honey is sweet but bees sting.
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- If the young only knew; if the old only could.
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- If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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- Life is an onion and one peels it crying.
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- Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
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- Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
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- No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
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- One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
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- Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.
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- Ready money works great cures.
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- Set a thief to catch a thief.
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- There is no flying without wings.
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- There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
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- Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.
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- To understand all is to forgive all.
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- Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.
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- Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.
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- Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
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- We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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- We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
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- What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.
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- When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.
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- When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.
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- With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.
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