A père avare enfant prodigue.A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Evêque d’or, crosse de bois; crosse d’or, évêque de bois.Golden bishop, wooden crosier; wooden bishop, golden crosier.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLe vin donné aux ouvriers est le plus cher vendu.The wine given to your workmen is that for which you get the best paid.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’y a plus d’enfans.There are no children now-a-days.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa petite aumône est la bonne.The little alms are the good alms.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSe faire marchand de poissons la veille de Pâques.To turn fishmonger on Easter-eve.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChien enragé ne peut longuement vivre.A mad dog cannot live long.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn homme mort n’a ni parents ni amis.A dead man has neither relations nor friends.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’âne du commun est toujours le plus mal bâté.The ass that is common property is always the worst saddled.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAide-toi, le ciel t’aidera.Help thyself and heaven will help thee.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCe qu’on apprend au berceau dure jusqu’au tombeau.What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDemandez-le à mon compagnon, qui est aussi menteur que moi.Ask my comrade, who is as great a liar as myself.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA chacun son fardeau pèse.Every one feels his own burden heavy.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPromettre plus de beurre que de pain.To promise more butter than bread.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa pelle se moque du fourgon.The shovel scouts the poker.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesJe sais à mon pot comment les autres bouillent.I know by my own pot how the others boil.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDu cuir d’un vieux mari on en achète un jeune.With an old husband’s hide one buys a young one.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQui a tête de cire ne doit pas s’approcher du feu.He that hath a head of wax must not approach the fire.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa nuit n’a point d’amis.Night has no friend.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui ne fait rien, fait mal.He who does nothing does ill.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCe qui est différé n’est pas perdu.All is not lost that is delayed.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMieux vaut terre gâtée que terre perdue.Better a ruined than a lost land.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAujourd’hui marié, demain marri.Married to-day, marred to-morrow.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesC’est la cour du roi Petaud, chacun y est maître.Like King Petaud’s court, where every one is master.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources