Un homme de paille vaut une femme d’or.A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Chacun à son goût.Every man to his taste.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA homme hardi fortune tend la main.To a bold man fortune holds out her hand.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFemme qui prend, se vend; femme qui donne, s’abandonne.A woman who accepts, sells herself; a woman who gives, surrenders.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUne poule aveugle peut quelquefois trouver son grain.A blind hen can sometimes find her corn.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFemme, argent, et vin, ont leur bien et leur venin.Women, money, and wine have their balm and their harm.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes chevaux courent les bénéfices et les ânes les attrapent.Horses run after benefices and asses get them.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAssez parents, assez tourments.Much kindred, much trouble.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNe touchez point à l’argent d’autrui, car le plus honnête homme n’y ajouta jamais rien.Touch not another man’s money, for the most honest never added to it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEn grand fardeau n’est pas l’acquêt.The greatest burdens are not the gainfullest.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPas à pas on va bien loin.Fair and softly goes far.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFille oisive, à mal pensive.A girl unemployed is thinking of mischief.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesComparaisons sont odieuses.Comparisons are odious.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCheval rogneux n’a cure qu’on l’étrille.A galled horse does not care to be curried.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMarchand d’oignons se connaît en ciboules.A dealer in onions is a good judge of scallions.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn ne doit pas laisser bonne terre pour mauvais seigneur.Good land should not be quitted for a bad landlord.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa lisière est pire que le drap.The list is worse than the cloth.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl est trop tard de fermer l’écurie quand les chevaux sont pris.It is too late to lock the stable-door when the steeds are stolen.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui femme croit et âne mène, son corps ne sera jamais sans peine.He who trusts a woman and leads an ass will never be free from plague.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui commence et ne parfait, sa peine perd.He who begins and does not finish loses his labour.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCe que le gantelet gagne le gorgeret le mange.What the gauntlet wins the gorget consumes.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBon avocat, mauvais voisin.A good lawyer is a bad neighbour.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’esprit qu’on veut avoir gâte celui qu’on a.The wit one wants spoils what one has.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPlumer l’oie sans la faire crier.To pluck the goose without making it cry out.
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