1238 sayings with source references.
Secret de deux, secret de Dieu; secret de trois, secret de tous.The secret of two is God’s secret, the secret of three is everybody’s secret.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA bon vin point d’enseigne.Good wine needs no sign.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQui se sent morveux, se mouche.Let him who feels he has a dirty nose wipe it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChacun son métier, et les vaches seront bien gardées.Let every one mind his own business, and the cows will be well tended.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesFaire du cuir d’autrui large courroie.To cut broad thongs from another man’s leather.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCoudre la peau du renard à celle du lion.To sew the fox’s skin to the lion’s.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNul n’est si large que celui qui n’a rien à donner.No one is so liberal as he who has nothing to give.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAu diable tant de maîtres, dit le crapaud à la herse.To the devil with so many masters, said the toad to the harrow.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn a plus de mal à se damner qu’à se sauver.People take more pains to be damned than to be saved.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesFaire de nécessité vertu.To make a virtue of necessity.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesToute chair n’est pas venaison.All flesh is not venison.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl vaut mieux être marteau qu’enclume.It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBon gaignage fait bon potage.Fat pastures make fat venison.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA nouveaux seigneurs nouvelles lois.New lords, new laws.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui gagne, joue bien.He plays well that wins.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa peur est grand inventeur.Fear is a great inventor.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTout y va par compère et commère.Everything goes by favour and cousinship.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPain dérobé réveille l’appétit.Stolen bread stirs the appetite.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesC’est peu que de courir, il faut partir à point.It is not enough to run; one must start in time.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui vit à compte, vit à honte.Who lives on the score has shame evermore.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes battus payent l’amende.The beaten pay the fine.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOignez vilain il vous poindra, poignez vilain il vous oindra.Anoint a villain and he will prick you, prick a villain and he will anoint you.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQui ne veut parler, ne veut gagner.Spare to speak and spare to speed.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA l’ongle on connaît le lion.You may know the lion by his claw.
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