ProverbPedia

French Proverb:
Aujourd'hui est à nous, mais demain est à Dieu.
English Translation:
To-day is ours: to-morrow God's.

French Proverb:
Les passions sobres font des gens communs.
English Translation:
Sober passions make commonplace people.

French Proverb:
Une livre de mélancolie n'acquitte pas pour une once de dettes.
English Translation:
A pound of melancholy will not pay an ounce of debts.

French Proverb:
Sèmpre à meissoun la grande tempestò.
English Translation:
Ever the great storm comes at harvest time.

French Proverb:
Quand on prend les hommes par les passions on les mène où l'on veut.
English Translation:
Take men by their passions, and you may carry them whither you please.

French Proverb:
La patrie est aux lieux où l'on a des amis.
English Translation:
Our fatherland is where we have friends.

French Proverb:
D'un sac à charbon ne peut sortir que de la poussière noire.
English Translation:
You can have nothing but dirty stuff out of a collier's sack.

French Proverb:
Tout le monde se plaint de sa mémoire, et personne ne se plaint de son jugement.
English Translation:
Every man complains of his memory, but no man complains of his judgment.

French Proverb:
Celui qui a de l'imagination sans érudition, a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.
English Translation:
He who has imagination without learning has wings, but no feet.

French Proverb:
C'est un grand signe de médiocrité de louer toujours modérément.
English Translation:
It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise everything moderately.

French Proverb:
Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.
English Translation:
The envious die, but envy never.

French Proverb:
La première moitié de sa vie se passe à désirer la seconde, la seconde à regretter la première.
English Translation:
The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.