1238 sayings with source references.
Autant dépend chiche que large, et à la fin plus davantage.The niggard spends as much as he who is liberal, and in the end more.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesHâtez-vous lentement.Hasten leisurely.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAprès la fête on gratte la tête.After a feast a man scratches his head.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuand vient la gloire s’en va la mémoire.When glory comes memory departs.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesC’est folie de faire son médecin son héritier.He is a fool who makes his physician his heir.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesJe ne vis oncques riche muet.I never saw a silent rich man.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa gloire vaine ne porte graine.Vainglory bears no grain.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl ne faut pas s’en rapporter à l’étiquette du sac.Don’t rely on the label of the bag.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDieu seul devine les sots.God alone understands fools.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQue ta chemise ne sache ta guise.Let not your shirt know your way of thinking.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChaque médaille a son revers.Every medal has its reverse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa vanité n’a pas de plus grand ennemi que la vanité.Vanity has no greater foe than vanity.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl faut bien laisser le jeu quand il est beau.It is well to leave off playing when the game is at its best.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPetit homme abat grand chêne.A little man fells a great oak.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA bon chat bon rat.To a good cat a good rat.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOù l’hôtesse est belle le vin est bon.Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOù la guêpe a passé le moucheron demeure.Where the wasp has passed the fly sticks fast.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVieux chien n’aboie pas en vain.An old dog does not bark for nothing.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesHomme assailli à demi vaincu.A man assailed is half overcome.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPauvreté est une espèce de ladrerie.Poverty is a sort of leprosy.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui ne fait pas quand il peut, il ne fait pas quand il veut.He that will not when he may, when he will shall have nay.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTirer le diable par la queue, ne mène loin jeunes ni vieux.Pulling the devil by the tail does not lead far young or old.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPoint de roses sans épines.No rose without a thorn.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOù il est faible le fil se rompt.Where the thread is weakest it breaks.
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