Avoir des amis en paradis et en enfer.To have friends both in heaven and hell.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Dormir une heure avant minuit vaut mieux que trois après.One hour’s sleep before midnight is better than three after it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTel qui rit vendredi, dimanche pleurera.He that laughs on Friday may cry on Sunday.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAutant vaut être mordu d’un chien que d’une chienne.It is all one whether you are bit by a dog or a bitch.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPlus on se découvre, plus on a froid.The more a man exposes his nakedness the colder he is.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn ne peut contenter tout le monde et son père.One cannot please everybody and one’s father.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’amour chasse jalousie.Love expels jealousy.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes fous inventent les modes et les sages les suivent.Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSi ce n’était le si et mais, nous serions tous riches à jamais.Were it not for “if” and “but,” we should all be rich for ever.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn ne fait pas de rien grasse porée.Fat broth cannot be made of nothing.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDe tout s’avise à qui pain faut.A man who wants bread is ready for anything.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMaison faite et femme à faire.A house ready made and a wife to make.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’habit ne fait pas le moine.The gown does not make the monk.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMauvais ouvrier ne trouvera jamais bon outil.A bad workman never finds a good tool.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAmi de table est variable.A table friend is changeable.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl est du naturel du chat, il retombe toujours sur ses pieds.He is like a cat, he always falls on his feet.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’y a pas de gens plus affairés que ceux qui ne font rien.None so busy as those who do nothing.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’amour fait passer le temps, et le temps fait passer l’amour.Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCe sont les pires bourdes que les vraies.The worst jests are those that are true.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBûche tortue fait bon feu.A crooked log makes a good fire.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl est tout prêché qui n’a cure de bien faire.He is past preaching to who does not care to do well.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’âne de la montagne porte le vin et boit de l’eau.The mountaineer’s ass carries wine and drinks water.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesIl ne faut pas chômer les fêtes avant qu’elles ne soient venues.It will not do to keep holidays before they come.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSi jeunesse savait! si vieillesse pouvait!If youth knew! if age could!
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