ProverbPedia

French Proverb:
Besoin si fait vieille trotter.
English Translation:
Need doth make the old wife run.

French Proverb:
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
English Translation:
A fool always finds a bigger fool to praise him.

French Proverb:
Nécessité est la moitié de raison.
English Translation:
Necessity is half a reason.

French Proverb:
L'amour et la fumée ne peuvent se cacher.
English Translation:
Love and smoke are two things which cannot be concealed.

French Proverb:
En vengeant la faute on l'accroît.
English Translation:
Justifying a fault doubles it.

French Proverb:
Contre mauvaise fortune bon cœur.
English Translation:
Good heart against bad fortune.

French Proverb:
Bon poète, mauvais homme.
English Translation:
A good poet and a bad man.

French Proverb:
Qui perd, pèche.
English Translation:
He who loses, sins.

French Proverb:
L'espoir des vaincus est de n'espérer point.
English Translation:
The vanquished have their hope in hoping for nothing.

French Proverb:
Boire sans soif et faire l'amour à tout temps; il n'y a que ça qui nous distingue des autres bêtes.
English Translation:
We drink without being thirsty, and make love at any time; that is the only distinction between us and the other animals.

French Proverb:
Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas.
English Translation:
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

French Proverb:
Le parti le plus juste est celui du vainqueur.
English Translation:
Justice is ever on the victor's side.