Choses promises sont choses dues.Things promised are things due.
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Longue langue, courte main.Long tongue, short hand.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui passe un jour d’hiver, il passe un de ses ennemis mortels.He who passes a winter’s day passes one of his mortal enemies.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFou qui se tait passe pour sage.The fool who is silent passes for wise.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn fait le loup plus grand qu’il n’est.The wolf is not so big as people make him.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’y a si méchant pot qui ne trouve son couvercle.There is no pot so bad but finds its cover.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’y a pas de sots métiers, il n’y a que de sottes gens.There are no foolish trades, there are only foolish people.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl porte le feu et l’eau.He carries fire and water.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDébander l’arc ne guérit pas la plaie.Unstringing the bow does not cure the wound.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA bon entendeur demi-mot.A word to the wise.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui se fait brebis, le loup le mange.Make yourself a sheep and the wolf will eat you.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesRien ne vaut poulain s’il ne rompt son lien.A colt is good for nothing if it does not break its halter.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCharité bien ordonnée commence par soi-même.Well-regulated charity begins with one’s self.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAutant vaut bien battu que mal battu.One may as well be well beaten as badly beaten.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuand le diable dit ses patenôtres il veut te tromper.When the devil says his paternosters he means to cheat you.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesToute comparaison est odieuse.Comparisons are odious.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn a tant crié Noël qu’à la fin il est venu.Christmas has been talked of so long that it has come at last.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes morveux veulent toujours moucher les autres.Snivelling folks always want to wipe other folks’ noses.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe diable n’est pas toujours à la porte d’un pauvre homme.The devil is not always at a poor man’s door.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBrebis qui bêle perd sa goulée.The sheep that bleats loses its mouthful.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTard donner, c’est refuser.To give tardily is to refuse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn ne saurait faire d’une buse un épervier.You cannot make a hawk of a buzzard.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA marmite qui bout mouche ne s’attaque.Flies will not light on a boiling pot.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPetite chose aide souvent.A little thing often helps.
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Read the saying and check its sources