Il n’a rien oublié, sinon de dire adieu.He forgot nothing except to say farewell.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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La nuit tous chats sont gris.By night all cats are grey.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA confesseurs, médecins, avocats, la vérité ne cèle de ton cas.From confessors, doctors, and lawyers, do not conceal the truth of your case.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesRenard qui dort la matinée, n’a pas la langue emplumée.The fox that sleeps in the morning has not his tongue feathered.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn ami de table et de vin, tenir ne faut pour bon voisin.A friend to my table and wine, is no good neighbour.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFaire un trou pour en boucher un autre.To make one hole by way of stopping another.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPrendre l’occasion aux cheveux.To take opportunity by the forelock.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAprès dommage chacun est sage.After mischance every one is wise.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMoins vaut rage que courage.Rage avails less than courage.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA mal enfourner on fait les pains cornus.Loaves put awry into the oven come out crooked.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDieu vous garde d’un homme qui n’a qu’une affaire.God save you from a man who has but one business.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTrois frères, trois châteaux.Three brothers, three castles.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEn petit champ croît bien bon bled.Very good corn grows in little fields.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBon fait voler bas à cause des branches.It is well to fly low on account of the branches.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPour bien connaître un homme il faut avoir mangé un boisseau de sel avec lui.To know a man well one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui plus qu’il n’a vaillant dépend, il fait la corde à quoi se pend.He that spends more than he is worth spins a rope for his own neck.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMauvaise herbe croît toujours.Ill weeds grow apace.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl a beau se lever matin qui a le renom de dormir la grasse matinée.It is in vain for a man to rise early who has the repute of lying in bed all the morning.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBien vient à mieux, et mieux à mal.Good comes to better, and better to bad.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChacun a un fou dans sa manche.Every one has a fool in his sleeve.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl y a plus de fols acheteurs que de fols vendeurs.There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTant va la cruche à l’eau qu’à la fin elle se brise.The pitcher goes often to the well and gets broken at last.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’adresse surmonte la force.Policy goes beyond strength.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesToute chose qui est bonne à prendre est bonne à rendre.What is worth receiving is worth returning.
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