ProverbPedia

French Proverb:
La couardise est mère de la cruauté.
English Translation:
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

French Proverb:
Ce n'est pas ce qui est criminel qui coûte le plus à dire, c'est ce qui est ridicule et honteux.
English Translation:
It is not that which is criminal that is the hardest to confess, but what is ridiculous and shameful.

French Proverb:
La coutume fait tout, jusqu'en amour.
English Translation:
Habit is all-powerful, even in love.

French Proverb:
Un bon mot ne prouve rien.
English Translation:
A witticism proves nothing.

French Proverb:
Fille qui écoute et ville qui parlemente, est à demi rendue.
English Translation:
The maiden that listens, and the town that parleys, is halfway towards surrender.

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.