Les lois ont le nez de cire.Laws have wax noses.
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Changer son cheval borgne contre un aveugle.To exchange a one-eyed horse for a blind one.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl ne choisit pas qui emprunte.Borrowers must not be choosers.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVilain affamé, demi enragé.A hungry clown is half mad.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa fortune ne peut nous ôter que ce qu’elle nous a donné.Fortune can take from us only what she has given us.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCelui qui tient la queue de la poële risque de se brûler.He that holds the handle of the frying-pan runs the risk of burning himself.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui un punit, cent menace.Who punishes one threatens a hundred.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTel vend, qui ne livre pas.Some sell and don’t deliver.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCependant le bonhomme n’a pas son sac.But for all that the honest man has not got his purse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl est plus aisé de se tirer de la rive que du fond.It is easier to get away from the bank than the bottom.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui parle, sème; qui écoute, recueille.Who speaks, sows; who listens, reaps.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui plus sait, plus se tait.Who knows most says least.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui sert commun, nul ne le paye, et s’il défaut, chacun l’abbaye.Who serves the mass is thanked by none, but cursed if aught be left undone.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDeux moineaux sur même épi ne sont pas long-temps unis.Two sparrows on the same ear of corn are not long friends.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPartage de Montgomery: tout d’un côté, rien de l’autre.A Montgomery division: all on one side, nothing on the other.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn se soûle bien de manger tartes.One may tire of eating tarts.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTenir le loup par les oreilles.To hold the wolf by the ears.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPierre qui roule n’amasse point de mousse.A rolling stone gathers no moss.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTendresse maternelle toujours se renouvelle.Mother’s love is ever in its spring.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn ne prête qu’aux riches.People lend only to the rich.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesRien ne vieillit plus vite qu’un bienfait.Nothing grows old sooner than a kindness.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières.Little brooks make great rivers.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes belles ne sont pas pour les beaux.Belles are not for the beaux.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl ne faut pas badiner avec le feu.It won’t do to trifle with fire.
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