Sayings of French Origin
A closed mouth catches no flies.
French Proverb – [Speakers and Speaking]
A father is a banker provided by nature.
French Proverb – [Fathers]
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
French Proverb – [Law and Lawyers]
A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
French Proverb – [Food and Eating]
A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.
French Proverb – [Conflict]
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
French Proverb – [Sin]
A surgeon should be young a physician old.
French Proverb – [Doctors]
Against change of fortune set a brave heart.
French Proverb – [Fortune]
Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
French Proverb – [Food and Eating]
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
French Proverb – [Beauty]
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
French Proverb – [Correction]
Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
French Proverb – [Medicine]
Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
French Proverb – [Divorce]
Don't dance on a volcano.
French Proverb – [Caution]
Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
French Proverb – [Talent]
Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
French Proverb – [Time and Time Management]
Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.
French Proverb – [Fashion]
Fear is a great inventor.
French Proverb – [Invention and Inventor]
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
French Proverb – [Fame]
Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
French Proverb – [Gambling]