Qui ne châtie culot, ne châtie culasse.He that corrects not youth controls not age.
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Toujours amoureux, jamais marié.Always in love, never married.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAutant de têtes, autant d’avis.So many men, so many minds.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBonne journée fait qui de fol se délivre.He does a good day’s work who rids himself of a fool.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl faut tourner sept fois sa langue dans sa bouche avant de parler.Turn your tongue seven times before speaking.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’homme est de feu, la femme d’étoupe; le diable vient qui souffle.Man is fire, woman is tow, and the devil comes and blows.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA la fin saura-t-on qui a mangé le lard.In the end it will be known who ate the bacon.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA chaque jour suffit sa peine.Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesForce n’a pas droit.Might knows no right.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’est si bon charretier qui ne verse.The best driver will sometimes upset.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDonner une chandelle à Dieu et une au diable.To offer one candle to God and another to the devil.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDépends le pendard et il te pendra.Take down a rogue from the gallows and he will hang you up.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa chandelle qui va devant vaut mieux que celle qui va derrière.The candle that goes before is better than that which comes after.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui tient la poële par la queue, il la tourne là où il veut.He who holds the handle of the frying-pan turns it as he pleases.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa patience est la vertu des ânes.Patience is the virtue of asses.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn chien regarde bien un évêque.A dog may look at a bishop.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNul vent ne fait pour lui qui n’a point de port destiné.No wind can do him good who steers for no port.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLà où sont les poussins la poule a les yeux.The hen’s eyes are with her chickens.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui attend les souliers d’un mort risque d’aller pieds nus.He who waits for a dead man’s shoes is in danger of going barefoot.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui sème épines, n’aille déchaux.Who sows thorns should not go barefoot.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl se ruine à promettre, et s’acquitte à ne rien donner.He ruins himself in promises, and clears himself by giving nothing.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn lie bien le sac avant qu’il soit plein.A sack is best tied before it is full.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe faux ami ressemble à l’ombre d’un cadran.The false friend is like the shadow of a sun-dial.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui en dit du mal, veut l’acheter.He who dispraises a thing, wants to buy it.
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