On ne peut pas être et avoir été.One cannot be and have been.
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Au nouveau tout est beau.What is new is always fine.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTuer un mercier pour un peigne.To kill a mercer for a comb.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn trouve remède à tout fors à la mort.There is a remedy for everything but death.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTête de fou ne blanchit jamais.A fool’s head never whitens.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUne chandelle à Saint Michel et une à son diable.One candle for St. Michael, and another for his devil.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn homme, nul homme.One man, no man.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe diable était beau quand il était jeune.The devil was handsome when he was young.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui est sur la mer, il ne fait pas des vents ce qu’il veut.He who is at sea does not direct the winds.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesC’est trop aimer quand on en meurt.It is loving too much to die of love.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesToujours truye songe bran.A sow is always dreaming of bran.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui se tient à Paris, ne sera jamais pape.He who never budges from Paris will never be pope.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’est pas si diable qu’il est noir.He is not so much of a devil as he is black.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVeux-tu meilleur pain que de froment?Do you want better bread than wheaten?
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl ne perdra pas l’avoine faute de brailler.He will not lose his oats for want of braying.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUne tromperie en attire une autre.One deceit brings on another.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuand le Français dort le diable le berce.When the Frenchman sleeps the devil rocks him.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui ne dit mot, consent.Silence gives consent.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl tombe sur le dos et se casse le nez.He falls on his back and breaks his nose.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA un pauvre homme sa vache meurt et au riche son enfant.Death takes the poor man’s cow and the rich man’s child.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLever à cinq, disner à neuf, souper à cinq, coucher à neuf, font vivre d’ans nonante-neuf.To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBon guet chasse malaventure.Good watching drives away ill-luck.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTout le monde est sage après l’événement.Everybody is wise after the thing has happened.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesHonnête pauvreté est clair semée.Honest poverty is thinly sown.
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