1238 sayings with source references.
Ne fais pas un four de ton bonnet ni de ton ventre un jardinet.Don’t make an oven of your cap or a garden of your belly.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQui reste dans la vallée ne passera jamais la montagne.He that stays in the valley will not get over the hill.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBoire et manger, coucher ensemble, c’est mariage, ce me semble.To eat and drink, and sleep together, is marriage, methinks.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesC’est folie de béer contre un four.It is folly to gape against an oven.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesChien hargneux a toujours l’oreille déchirée.Snarling curs never want sore ears.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCommunautés commencent par bâtir leur cuisine.Communities begin by building their kitchen.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesOn ne jette des pierres qu’à l’arbre chargé de fruits.It is only at the tree loaded with fruit that people throw stones.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPlus fait douceur que violence.Gentleness does more than violence.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQui a honte de manger a honte de vivre.He that is ashamed to eat is ashamed to live.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEnfants et fous sont devins.Children and fools are prophets.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPour faire un bon ménage, il faut que l’homme soit sourd et la femme aveugle.To make a happy couple, the husband must be deaf and the wife blind.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA tard crie l’oiseau quand il est pris.Too late the bird cries out when it is caught.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe gerbe remuée chet le grain.The corn falls out of a shaken sheaf.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQui n’entend qu’une cloche, n’entend qu’un son.Who hears but one bell hears but one sound.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesUn malheur ne vient jamais seul.Misfortunes never come single.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLever à six, manger à dix, souper à six, coucher à dix, font vivre l’homme dix fois dix.To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a man live years ten times ten.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesIl est bien aisé d’aller à pied quand on tient son cheval par la bride.It is pleasant enough going afoot when you lead your horse by the bridle.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuand on n’a pas ce que l’on aime, il faut aimer ce que l’on a.When one has not what one likes, one must like what one has.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesChose perdue, chose connue.A thing lost is a thing known.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’est si riche festin, où il n’y ait quelqu’un qui mal dîne.There never was a banquet so sumptuous but some one dined ill at it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe jeune angelot vieux diable.A young angel, an old devil.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQui veut apprendre à prier, aille souvent sur la mer.If a man would learn to pray let him go often to sea.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesVides chambres font femmes folles.Empty rooms make giddy housewives.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesL’empereur d’Allemagne est le roy des roys, le roy d’Espagne roy des hommes, le roy de France roy des ânes, et le roy d’Angleterre roy des diables.The Emperor of Germany is the king of kings, the King of Spain king of men, the King of France king of asses, the King of England king of devils.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources