Tôt gagné, tôt gaspillé.Soon gained soon squandered.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée.A door must either be open or shut.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes cloches appellent à l’église mais n’y entrent pas.Bells call to church but do not enter.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA chaque saint son cierge.To every saint his candle.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui mange de l’oye du roi, chiera une plume quarante ans après.He who eats of the king’s goose will void a feather forty years after.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesD’une vache perdue c’est quelque chose de recouvrer la queue, ne fût-ce que pour faire un tirouer à son huis.When a cow is lost it is something to recover its tail, were it only to make a handle for one’s door.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMieux vaut plier que rompre.Better bend than break.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’entente est au diseur.The meaning is best known to the speaker.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBelle hôtesse c’est un mal pour la bourse.A handsome hostess is bad for the purse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOy, voy, et te tay, si veux vivre en paix.Hear, see, and say nothing if you would live in peace.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl est dit habile, qui fraude ami et pile.He is called clever who cheats and plunders his friend.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui n’a pas argent en bourse, ait miel en bouche.He that has not money in his purse should have honey in his mouth.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesGrande dispute vérité rebute.Great disputing repels truth.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA force de mal aller tout ira bien.By dint of going wrong all will come right.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’est point de belles prisons ni de laides amours.Never seemed a prison fair or mistress foul.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn marteau d’argent rompt une porte de fer.A silver hammer breaks an iron door.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA bon pêcheur échappe anguille.An eel escapes from a good fisherman.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn mauvais accommodement vaut mieux qu’un bon procès.A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBrebis trop apprivoisée de trop d’agneaux est tettée.The sheep that is too tame is sucked by too many lambs.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes gros larrons pendent les petits.Great thieves hang the little ones.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChacun se fait fouetter à sa guise.Every one takes his flogging in his own way.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl faut faire ce qu’on fait.What you are doing do thoroughly. (Age quod agis.)
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn homme bien monté est toujours orgueilleux.A man well mounted is always proud.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChien affamé, de bastonnade n’est intimidé.A hungry dog is not afraid of a cudgelling.
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