French proverbs

thumb|So much does one shout "Christmas" that at last it comes! __NOTOC__ A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z · See also · External links A A bien petite occasion Se saisit le loup du mouton. English equivalent: The wolf finds a reason for taking the lamb. von Düringsfeld Ida von Reinsberg Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen vergleichend zusammengestellt von I. von Düringsfeld und O. Freiherrn von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld https://books.google.com/books?id=NaT4ynv1ZTMC&pg=PA388 II 1875 German 388 682, Wolf À bois noueux, hache affilée. English equivalent: You must meet roughness with roughness Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 12 504 0415160502 À chaque fou plaît sa marotte. English equivalent: Every fool is pleased with his own folly. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT411 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 139 147 À chaque oiseau son nid est beau. English equivalent: The bird loves her own nest. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT410 II 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 776 923 À goupil endormi rien ne tombe en la gueule. English equivalent: Liars should have a good memory. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 73 2200 0415096243 À grands maux, grands remèdes. / Aux grands maux, les grands remèdes. Desperate times call for desperate measures/Desperate diseases must have desperate cures. "The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax." Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955), Section 124. Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA53 10 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 53 Emanuel Strauss Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT552 10 August 2013 11 January 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 552 812 À mauvais ouvrier point de bon outil. A bad craftsman blames his tools. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 4 0415160502 À mauvaise tête bonnes jambes. English equivalent: A forgetful head makes a weary pair of heels. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT206 2001 DeProverbio.com 978-1-4660-4673-3 206 H 1355 À cheval donné on ne regarde pas les dents (French) / la bride (Canadian). Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. "Gifts and donations in general, whether their value be more or less, should be accounted tokens of kindness and received with promptness and cordiality." Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA127 1845 Munroe and Company 127 Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT515 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 X 184 À confesseurs, médicins, avocats, la vérité ne cèle de ton cas. English equivalent: Hide nothing from thy minister, physician and lawyer. Kritzinger Christian Wilhelm Nouveau dictionaire des proverbes François-Allemand, oder neues französisch-deutsches Sprich-Wörter-Buch, worinnen alle französische Sprichwörter und Gallicismi ... anzutreffen ... zusammengetragen ... von Christian Wilhelm Kritzinger https://books.google.com/books?id=2MNFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA164 1743 164 À l'étroit mais entre amis. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1094 2200 0415096243 À l'œuvre, on connaît l'artisan. A workman is known by his chips. Jean de La Fontaine, Fables (1668–1679), I., 21, Les Frelons et les Mouches à miel; reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 1. A peine sera bon maistre qui n'a esté serviteur. English equivalent: Who has not served cannot command. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend https://books.google.se/books?id=S5dYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA289&dq=A+peine+sera+bon+maistre+qui+n%27a+est%C3%A9+serviteur+sprichw%C3%B6rter+der+germanischen+und+romanischen.&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAzq7I0rj1AhUgQvEDHSOCDgIQ6AF6BAgEEAM#v=onepage&q=A%20peine%20sera%20bon%20maistre%20qui%20n'a%20est%C3%A9%20serviteur%20sprichw%C3%B6rter%20der%20germanischen%20und%20romanischen.&f=false 1875 German I 289 555, gehorchen Aujourd'hui à moy, demain à toy. English equivalent: To day thee, to morrow me. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto 1875 Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend I https://books.google.se/books?id=ZIow1sbpIfoC&pg=PA383&dq=Oggi+a+me,+dimane+a+te+sprichw%C3%B6rter+der+germanische&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjb_YqO8Mf3AhWUyYsKHYaTBu8Q6AF6BAgEEAM 382-383 729, Heute À raconter ses maux, souvent on les soulage. A problem shared is a problem halved. Emanuel Strauss Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=z-3FyaMKtfUC&pg=PA665 II 1994 Taylor & Francis 978-0-415-10381-7 665 766 À tort se lamente de la mer qui ne s'ennuie d'y retourner. He complains wrongfully at the sea that suffer shipwreck twice. "The only thing I learn from my mistakes is how to make them more spectacular." Stephen Lee, Twitter (2018) Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=z-3FyaMKtfUC&pg=PA898 II 1994 978-0-415-10381-7 898 1109 À qui il a été beaucoup donné, il sera beaucoup demandé. Everybody to whom much is given, much is expected. "Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." Aldous Huxley Ends and Means (1937) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1095 2200 0415096243 Abondance de bien ne nuit pas. A store is no sore; Keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use for it. Meaning: "An object that seems useless now may be just what you need at some future time, so do not discard it." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA159 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 159 Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA43 1842 J.W. Parker 14 Aide-toi et le ciel t'aidera. Heaven helps those who help themselves. "When in trouble first of all every one themselves should do their best to improve their condition." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 150 527 1-875943-44-7 Lamy Marie-Noklle illustrated, reprint 1997 The Cambridge French-English Thesaurus Cambridge University Press 103 338 0521425816 Amour, toux et fumée en secret ne sont demeurés. Love, smoke and cough are hard to hide. "Two things a man can't hide; that he is drunk and that he is in love." Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love (2014) Kelly Walter Keating 1859 Proverbs of all nations W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) 50 238 Après la pluie, le beau temps. After rain comes sunshine. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 7 A tout pourquoi il y a (un) parce que. Every why has a wherefore. A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution. Russell L. Ackoff, The development of operations research as a science (1956) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 765 2200 0415096243 À tout seigneur, tout honneur. English equivalent: Give credit where credit is due Teodor Flonta A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT217 2001 DeProverbio.com 978-1-4660-4673-3 217 A qui la tête fait mal, souffre par tout le corps. When the head is sick, the whole body is sick. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1117 2200 0415096243 A vrai dire peu de paroles. Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about. "The truth needs no colors." Bartlett Jere Whiting Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases http://books.google.com/books?id=EuvqPkAq2bkC&pg=PA456 1977 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-21981-6 456 B Bacchus a noyé plus de gens que Neptune. English equivalent: Wine has drowned more than the sea. "A good way to define alcohol abuse is this: If it causes a problem, it is a problem." Cyndi Turner, Can I Keep Drinking?: How You Can Decide When Enough is Enough (2016) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 864 2200 0415096243 Beaucoup de paille, peu de grains. Great cry and little wool. "Much ado about nothing." Source for meaning of Keating Walter Proverbs of All Nations http://books.google.com/books?id=PdxtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA128 1859 W. Kent & Company (late D. Bogue) 128 Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT499 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 173 178 Bien mal acquis ne profite jamais. Ill gotten goods never prosper. "A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!" Isaac Asimov, The Currents of Space (1952). Dictionnaire des proverbes anglais-français, français-anglais http://books.google.com/books?id=Hhi0qA7MiigC&pg=PA60 1 January 1998 Presses Université Laval 978-2-7637-7606-4 60 Bien nourri et mal appris. Well fed and poorly taught. "For if absurdity be the subject of laughter, doubt you not but great boldness is seldom without some absurdity." Bacon Francis Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall 1625 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 16 Bois tordu fait feu droit. Crooked logs make straight fires. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 683 2200 0415096243 Bon cœur ne peut mentir. The heart sees farther than the head. Literal: "Good heart cannot lie" "Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened." Winston Churchill, On Stanley Baldwin, as cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), Ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 322 1586486381 Also quoted by Kay Halle in Irrepressible Churchill: A Treasury of Winston Churchill's Wit (1966). Josiah Gilbert Holland Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) Bon est le médecin qui se peut guérir. English equivalent: He's an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend https://books.google.se/books?id=Xc9u8vj9CXsC&pg=PA133&dq=Alle+wissen+guten+Rath,+Nur+nicht,+wer+ihn+n%C3%B6thig+hat+sprichw%C3%B6rter+der+germanischen&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6kMyE6ej1AhUZQvEDHeYrAf4Q6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=Alle%20wissen%20guten%20Rath%2C%20Nur%20nicht%2C%20wer%20ihn%20n%C3%B6thig%20hat%20sprichw%C3%B6rter%20der%20germanischen&f=false 1875 German II 133 239, rathen Bon marché tire agent de bourse. If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 53 491 0415160502 Bon sang ne saurait mentir. Good blood always shows itself. Alain-René Lesage, Gil Blas (1715-1735), X., 1; reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 13. Alternately reported as Bon sang ne saurait mentir, "Good blood wouldn't know how to lie". Bonne enclume ne craint pas le marteau. English equivalent: A good anvil does not fear the hammer. von Erberg Matthias LE GRAND DICTIONAIRE UNIVERSEL ET PARFAIT: Divisé en III. Parties. Savoir I. ITALIEN-FRANÇOIS-ALEMAN, II. FRANÇOIS-ITALIEN-ALEMAN. III. ALEMAN-FRANÇOIS-ITALIEN.. Ensemble Un Abregé de la Grammaire de chacune d' icelles. SECONDE PARTIE https://books.google.com/books?id=-3FpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA163 1710 Chez Martin Endter 163 Bon Bonne renommée vaut mieux que ceinture dorée. A good name is the best of all treasures. "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Works, Volume VIII. In his Journal. (1855), p. 528. (Ed. 1912) Source: Rozan Charles 1887 Petites ignorances de la conversation P. Ducrocq 460 471 Bonne volonté est reputé pour le fait. Take the will for the deed. "We must always give people credit for their good intentions, even if they fail to carry them through." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA258 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 258 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 881 2200 0415096243 Bons nageurs sont à la fin noyés. Good swimmers are often drowned. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 879 2200 0415096243 C C'est donner deux fois, donner promptement. Translation and He gives twice, who gives in a trice. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 38 C'est folie de commencer ce qu'on ne peut achever. English equivalent: Better never begun than never ended; He that takes the devil into the boat must carry him over the sound. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT33 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 33 177 C'est la paille et la poutre. It's the straw and the beam. English equivalent: You see the splinter in another's eye but fail to see the beam in your own. Rey Alain Dictionnaire Historique de la langue française https://books.google.com/books?id=Pi8wQTpjJ34C&pg=PT16019 2011 978-2-321-00013-6 16019 POUTINE C'est viande mal prête que lièvre en buisson. English translation: First catch your hare and cook him. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 683 2200 0415096243 Ce que chante la corneille, chante le corneillon. As the old crow sings, so sing its fledglings. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 138 0415160502 Ce qui croît soudain, périt le lendemain. Early ripe, early rotten. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 758 2200 0415096243 Ce que l'enfant écoute au foyer, est bientôt connu jusqu'au moutier. English translation: What children hear at home, soon flies abroad. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 653 2200 0415096243 Ce que tout le monde dit doit être vrai. What everybody says must be true. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 77 2200 0415096243 Ce qui est bon pour l'un est bon pour l'autre. English equivalent: What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and French Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=0eSkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT126 2001 978-1-4659-0803-2 126 883 Celui qui n'est pas avec moi est contre moi. He who is not with me is against me. Originally from the Bible, Luke 11:23 and Matthew 12:30. Specificed as a proverb in (Strauss, 1994 p. 974). Celui qui est lent à manger est lent à travailler. Quick at meat, quick at work. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1150 2200 0415096243 Celui que veut être jeune quand il est vieux, doit être vieux quand il est jeune. They who would be young when they are old must be old when they are young. Strauss Emanuel 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge II 1605 1151 2200 0415096243 Celui qui fuit de bonne heure peut combattre derechef. He that flees and runs away might live to see another day. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 703 2200 0415096243 C'est l'exception qui confirme la règle. It's the exception that proves the rule. Source: Verlaan P. Déry M. 2006 Les conduites antisociales des filles: Comprendre pour mieux agir Presses de l'Université du Québec 49 160 9782760514249 C'est la poule qui chante qui a fait l'œuf. Source: Cassagne Jean-Marie 1998 101 French proverbs: understanding French language and culture through common sayings McGraw-Hill 49 160 0844212911 C'est le ton qui fait la chanson. It's not what you do it's the way that you do it. Source: Cassagne Jean-Marie 1998 101 French proverbs: understanding French language and culture through common sayings McGraw-Hill 49 160 0844212911 C'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron. Practice makes perfect. Source: Strauss E. 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 698 2400 9780415103800 C'est trop d'un ennemi et pas assez de cent amis. Do not think that one enemy is insignificant, or that a thousand friends are too many. "Thou canst not joke an Enemy into a Friend; but thou may'st a Friend into an Enemy." Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1739) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 718 2200 0415096243 C'est vouloir prendre des lièvres au son du tambour. Drumming is not the way to catch a hare. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 754 2200 0415096243 Ce n'est pas la vache qui crie le plus fort qui donne le plus de lait. It is not the hen who cackles the loudest who hatches the most eggs. Source: Société liégeoise de littérature wallonne 1892 Bulletin de la Société liégeoise de littérature wallonne, Volym 31 Indiana University 450 Ce qui est fait n'est plus à faire. What is done no longer needs to be done. Source: Both Anne 2009 Ce qui est fait n'est plus à faire: ethnographie d'un centre d'archives municipales : [étude réalisée dans le cadre du] programme de recherche Les fabriques du patrimoine Direction de l'architecture et du patrimoine Ceux que Jupiter veut perdre, il commence par leur oter la raison. Whom God will destroy, he first make mad. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 841 2200 0415096243 Chacun doit balayer. Everyone should sweep before his own door. "The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. That has been my secret, and I have never had any quarrels. What if people are fools or knaves, it is not your house-keeping and you had far better leave them to their fate. The more you try to prove yourselves in the right and D. in the wrong, the more you will confirm him in his own views. Nothing makes people more furious than being proved to be in the wrong; and even if you convince D. he will always hate you." Hannah Whitall Smith, Philadelphia Quaker: The Letters of Hannah Whitall Smith (1950), p. 146 (part_5, p. 3 in linked document). Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 28 Chacun pour soi et Dieu pour tous. Every one for himself and God for us all. Henri Estienne, Les Prémices (1595), Epigramme CXXX; reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 28 (reported in Harbotle as "pour soy", rather than "pour soi"). Chacun peut être riche en promesses. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 765 2200 0415096243 Chacun sent le mieux où le soulier le blesse. No one knows where the shoe pinches, but he who wears it. Meaning: "Nobody can fully understand another person's hardship or suffering." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 289 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 4 Chagrin partagé, chagrin diminué; plaisir partagé, plaisir doublé. Joy shared, joy doubled: sorrow shared, sorrow halved. Also: Joy shared, joy doubled: sorrow shared, sorrow halved. Source for proverb: Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 249 2200 0415096243 Chaque chose vaut son prix. Everything is worth its price. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 800 2200 0415096243 Chaque jour une pomme conserve son homme. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Bulman Françoise Dictionnaire des proverbes anglais-français, français-anglais 1998 Presses Université Laval 58 Charité bien ordonnée commence par soi-même. Charity begins at home. "If we neglect objects of charity at home, or within the circle of our immediate acquaintance, to extend our good deeds to those abroad, our sincerity, our motives, and our character, are suspected, and there is ground of suspicion. For it is in the order of nature to relieve, first, by our liberality and benefactions, those connected with us, - our families, and immediate neighborhood." Source for meaning of Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA51 1845 Munroe and Company 51 Adrien de Montluc, La Comédie de Proverbes, Act III., Scene VII (translated by Le Prevost); reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 29 (reported in Harbotle as "soy-même", rather than "soi-même"). Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide. A scalded cat fears cold water. Once bitten, twice shy. If you ever have been hurt by something, you'll be over-cautious of anything that even looks the same. Adrien de Montluc, La Comédie de Proverbes, Act I, Scene VI (translated by Macee); reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 30. Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop. Chase away the natural and it returns at a gallop. If you cast out nature with a fork, it will still return. Philippe Néricault Destouches, Le Glorieux, Act III., Scene V (translated by Lisette); reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 29. Cherchons la femme. Let us look for the woman. A woman is probably at the heart of the quarrel. Alexandre Dumas, père, Les Mohicans de Paris, Vol. II., Chapter XL (translation by M. Jackal); reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 30. Alternately reported as Cherchez la femme ("Look for the woman"). Chien qui aboie ne mord pas. Barking dogs seldom bite. Meaning: People who make the most or the loudest threats are the least likely to take action. Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA14 20 June 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 17 Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 97 0415160502 Choisissez votre femme par l'oreille bien plus que par les yeux. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 655 2200 0415096243 Comme on fait son lit, on se couche. As you make your bed, so you must lie. "You must put up with the unpleasant results of a foolish action or decision." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA14 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 14 Comparaison n'est pas raison. Comparisons are odious. Meaning: "People and things should be judged on the individual qualities they possess, rather than by comparing one with another." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA45 7 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 45 Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 320 0415160502 C'est dans le besoin qu'on reconnaît ses vrais amis. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 43 0415160502 Ce n'est pas aux vieux singes qu'on apprend à faire des grimaces. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 116 0415160502 Coffre ouvert, rend le saint pervers. A nice wife and a back door oft make a rich man poor. "Call your Husband Cuckold in Jest and he'll ne'er suspect you." Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732) Emanuel Strauss Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.se/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT21&lpg=PT20&focus=viewport&dq=An+open+door+dictionary+of+european+proverbs&output=html_text 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78971-7 348 Coucher de poule et lever de corbeau écartent l'homme du tombeau. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. "A lifestyle that involves neither staying up late nor sleeping late is good for body and mind and leads to financial success." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA70 5 September 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 70 Source: Bulman, F F. 1998 Dictionnaire Des Proverbes Anglais-Francais, Francais-Anglais Presses de l'Université Laval 69 9782763776064 Courte priére pénètre les cieux . Short prayers reach heaven. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 75 D De l'abondance du coeur la bouche parle. English equivalent: Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT7 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 7– 6 E D'un costé Dieu poingt, de l'autre il vingt. (old French) God who gives the wound gives the salve. "What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied." Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, (1975) Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search. Turing Award Lecture. p. 122 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 874 2200 0415096243 Dans le doute, abstiens-toi. When in doubt, leave it out. Meaning: "If you are unsure what to do, it is best to do nothing at all." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA123 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 296 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1223 2200 0415096243 De la mesure dont nous mesurons les autres nous serons mesurés. Whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1219 2200 0415096243 De mauvais grain jamais bon pain. A golden bit does not make the horse any better. "To those who are given to virtue, the boast of titles is wholly alien and distasteful." Petrarch, “On the Various Academic Titles,” De remediis utriusque fortunae, C. Rawski, trans. (1967), p. 73 Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 52 504 0415160502 De qui je me fie Dieu me garde. A man's worst enemies are often those of his own house. "I wish to persuade the reader that, whatever the arguments may be, reason lays no embargo upon happiness; nay, more, I am persuaded that those who quite sincerely attribute their sorrows to their views about the universe are putting the cart before the horse: the truth is that they are unhappy for some reason of which they are not aware, and this unhappiness leads them to dwell upon the less agreeable characteristics of the world in which they live." Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness (1930) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 52 2200 0415096243 De tout s'avise à qui pain faut. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 638 504 0415160502 Deux ancres sont bonnes au navire. Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if the one fails, the other may hold. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 879 2200 0415096243 Diviser pour régner. Divide and conquer. Meaning: "The best way to conquer or control a group of people is by encouraging them to fight among themselves rather than allowing them to unite in opposition to the ruling authority." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA57 13 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 57 Strauss Emanuel Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT565 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 823 Don d'ennemi c'est malencontreux. This advice has its root in the story of the Trojan Horse, the treacherous subterfuge by which the Greeks finally overcame their trojan adversaries at the end of the Trojan War. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. Meaning: "Do not trust gifts or favors if they come from an enemy." Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser David H. Pickering The Facts On File Dictionary of Classical and Biblical Allusions http://books.google.com/books?id=LIcL56NQ3gsC&pg=PA46 1 July 2013 2003 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-4868-7 46 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 855 2200 0415096243 Donnant donnant. You don't get nothing for nothing. Meaning: "Everything has to be paid for, directly or indirectly, in money or in kind." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA314 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 314 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1111 2200 0415096243 Donner un oeuf pour avoir une fève. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1134 2200 0415096243 E En peu d'heure Dieu labeure God works in moments Meaning: "Grand moments" are significantly important Emerson Ralph Waldo 7 Centenary The Complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson; with a biographical introd. and notes by Edward Waldo Emerson, and a general index Works and Days 178 https://archive.org/details/completeworks07emeruoft/page/178 constable London 1903 Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaning: His work is soon done Wood James 1893 1040547521 OL25935791M https://archive.org/details/b24876343/page/82 82 Warne London, New York Dictionary of quotations from ancient and modern, English and foreign sources En toute chose il faut considérer la fin. Whatever you do, act wisely, and consider the end. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 600 2200 0415096243 Entre l'arbre et l'écorce il ne faut pas mettre le doigt. "Don't go between the tree and the bark." Meaning: Do not interfere when two parts are having an argument. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 729 2200 0415096243 Envie est toujours en vie. Envy takes no holiday. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 767 2200 0415096243 F Faire d'une mouche un éléphant. Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. Kelly Walter Keating W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) Proverbs of all nations 1859 58 238 Faire le pas plus long que la jambe. Don't have too many irons in the fire. "Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions." Samuel Johnson, Prayers and Meditations, (1785). Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 977 2200 0415096243 Faire un cygne d'un oison. Every man thinks his own geese swans. "This proverb imitates that an inbred Philauty runs through the whole Race of Flefh and Blood. It blinds the Underftanding, perverts the Judgment and depraves the Reafon of the Diftinguishers of Truth and Falfity." Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 42 Fais comme je dis, non comme j'agis. Preachers say: Do as I say, not as I do. "It bears no reason that others should show greater love to me, than I have showed them." John Locke, Second Tract of Government (1662) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 706 2200 0415096243 Fais ce que tu peux, si tu ne peux faire ce que tu veux. Do as you may, if you can't do as you could. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 707 2200 0415096243 Faute avouée est à moitié pardonnée. A fault confessed is a half redressed. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 37 0415160502 Faute de mieux le roi couche avec sa femme. Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 865 2200 0415096243 Femme bonne vaut une couronne. A cheerful wife is the spice of life. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 20 504 0415160502 Ferveur de novice ne dure pas. New brooms sweep clean. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1103 2200 0415096243 Folle est la brebis qui au loup se confesse. It's a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor. How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves? François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678) Le Roux de Lincy Le livre des proverbes français: précédé de recherches historiques sur les proverbes français et leur emploi dans la littérature du moyen âge et de la renaissance http://books.google.com/books?id=RloVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA152 1859 Slatkine Reprints 152 Fuis le plaisir qui amène repentir. Avoid the pleasure which will bite tomorrow. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 11 176 G Gardez-vous des faux prophètes. Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 170 504 0415160502 Grand bruit, petite toison, dit celui qui tond le cochon. English equivalent: Great cry and little wool. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT89 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 89 563 Gueux en selle galope à crever sa monture. English equivalent: Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the Devil. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT32 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 32 171 H Hâtez-vous lentement. English equivalentː Make haste slowly. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, L’Art Poitiqueé, I., 171; reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 54. Heureux sont les enfants dont les pères sont damnés. English equivalent: Happy is the child whose father went to the devil. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend https://books.google.se/books?id=Xc9u8vj9CXsC&pg=PA142&dq=Happy+is+the+child+whose+father+went+to+the+devil.+sprichw%C3%B6rter+der+germanischen+und+romanischen&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjl4uX_wcL1AhXbSPEDHbqNAVYQ6AF6BAgoEAI#v=onepage&q=Happy%20is%20the%20child%20whose%20father%20went%20to%20the%20devil.%20sprichw%C3%B6rter%20der%20germanischen%20und%20romanischen&f=false 1875 German II 142 254, Reicher I Il faut bien laisser le jeu quand il est beau. English equivalent: Leave a jest when it pleases you best. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend https://books.google.se/books?id=zQYJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA59&dq=Un+poc+d%27zug+%C3%A8+po+b%C3%A8ll&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj12tXl2qT1AhWtR_EDHfCLAzgQ6AF6BAgDEAM#v=onepage&q=Un%20poc%20d'zug%20%C3%A8%20po%20b%C3%A8ll&f=false 1875 German I 59-60 122, aufhören Il faut bonne mémoire après qu'on a menti . A liar should have a good memory. "Liars must remember the untruths they have told, to avoid contradicting themselves at some later date." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA167 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 167 Qui ne sent point assez ferme de memoire, ne se doit pas mêler d'être menteur. "Who is not sure of his memory should not attempt lying." Michel de Montaigne, Of Liars, Book I, Chapter IX. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT736 24 November 2013 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 257 274 Il faut donner au diable son dû. Give the devil his due. "Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth." Plautus, Mostellaria, I. 3. 133. Flonta Teodor 2002 God and the Devil: Proverbs in 9 European Languages Teodor Flonta 21 112 1875943412 Il faut casser le noyau pour en avoir l'amande. He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut. "Nothing is achieved without effort." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA121 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 121 Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ 1842 J.W. Parker 56 Il faut être matelot avant d’être capitaine. Who has not served cannot command. Source: Strauss E. 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 660 2200 9780415103800 Il faut être deux pour danser le tango. It takes two to tango. "The reason that there are so few good conversationalists is that most people are thinking about what they are going to say and not about what the others are saying." François de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions diverses, IV: De la conversation. (1731) Frenette, M. (2009). Il Faut Être Deux Pour Danser Le Tango, Michel Frenette. Il faut laisser aller le monde comme il va. We need to let the world go the way it is. Let nature take its course/ There's two sides to every penny. In Voltaire's "Le Monde Comme Il Va", the protagonist Babouk utters these words to a powerful magical being when questioned whether the world is nothing but bad and should be destroyed. It means to accept the way the world is and that no matter how corrupt or backward a society seems, there is always a nugget of beauty and wisdom that stems from each one. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 865 2200 0415096243 Il faut laver son linge sale en famille. Don't wash your dirty linen in public; It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest. "Why wantonly proclaim one's own disgrace, or expose the faults or weaknesses of one's kindred or people?" "It is considered contemptible to defy the rule of solidarity by revealing facts harmful to the group one belongs to." Proverbs of All Nations http://books.google.com/books?id=PdxtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA109 1859 W. Kent & Company (late D. Bogue) 109 Paczolay Gyula European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese http://books.google.com/books?id=JiXzAAAAMAAJ 1997 Veszprémi Nyomda 1-875943-44-7 466 106 Napoleon, reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 61, referencing Balzac, Eugénie Grandet, p. 184. Il faut manger pour vivre, et non pas vivre pour manger. Gluttony kills more than the sword. Molière, L'Avare, Act III., Scene V (translated by Valére); reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 61. Il faut prêcher d'exemple. Lead by example. "Example has more followers than reason." Christian Nestell Bovee, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862) "Men trust their ears less than their eyes." Herodotus The Histories "Example is always more efficacious than precept." Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (1759) Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 55 504 0415160502 Il faut reculer pour mieux sauter. One must step back to take a good leap. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 62 Il faut réfléchir avant d'agir. Look before you leap. "The man who thinks before he acts, is most likely to act with discretion, and have no future cause to repent of his conduct; but he who acts blindly, without any foresight, will probably suffer for his rashness." Trusler John 1790 Proverbs exemplified, and illustrated by pictures from real life http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004859207.0001.000?rgn=main;view=fulltext 115 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1069 2200 0415096243 Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée. A door must be either shut or open. "When someone just writes 'f**k, f**k, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases — people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the neck." Jimmh Wales, As quoted in "Who knows?", The Guardian (26 October 2004) Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 97 0415160502 Il faut battre le fer pendant qu'il est chaud. Strike while the iron is hot. Source: Strauss E. 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 1080 2200 9780415103800. Il n'est pas chance qui ne retourne. Opportunity knocks only once. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 400 2200 0415096243 Il n'est pire sourd que celui qui ne veut pas entendre. None so deaf as he that won't hear. English equivalent: None so deaf as those who will not hear. ̽Bohn Henry George A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs: Comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish, with English Translations and a General Index https://books.google.com/books?id=AWFjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA24 1857 24 I Il n'est rien tel qui balai neuf. A new broome sweepeth cleane. "We should never use an old tool when the extra labor in consequence costs more than a new one. Thousands wear out their lives and waste their time merely by the use of dull and unsuitable instruments." "We often apply it to exchanges among servants, clerks, or any persons employed, whose service, at first, in any new place, is very good, both efficient and faithful; but very soon, when all the new circumstances have lost their novelty, and all their curiosity has ceased, they naturally fall into their former and habitual slackness." Source for meaning: Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA38 1845 Munroe and Company 38 Paczolay Gyula European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese http://books.google.com/books?id=JiXzAAAAMAAJ 1997 Veszprémi Nyomda 1-875943-44-7 92 12 Il n'est si bonne compagnie qu'on ne quitte. English equivalent: The best of friends must part. "Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one." Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Ch. 1 Flonta Teodor 2001 A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbsb https://books.google.se/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT175&dq=Il+n%27est+si+bonne+compagnie+qu%27on+ne+quitte&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi22Mnp6fz4AhU_XfEDHSdiDD4Q6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=Il%20n'est%20si%20bonne%20compagnie%20qu'on%20ne%20quitte&f=false 175 1149, Friends 9781466046733 Il n'est si riche festin, où il n'y ait quelqu'un qui mal dîne. Bohn Henry George A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs: Comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish, with English Translations and a General Index https://books.google.com/books?id=NQ0oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25 1889 25 Il ne convient pas à fol qu'on lui rende cloche au col. A tongue of a fool carves a piece of his heart to all that sit near him. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 136 2200 0415096243 Il ne faut jamais quitter le certain pour l'incertain. He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance, When fools pipe, he may dance. "Be they wynners or loosers,…beggers should be no choosers." John Heywood's Proverbs and Epigrams (1562 ed.) Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA43 1842 J.W. Parker 50 Il ne faut pas brûler la chandelle par les deux bouts. Don't burn the candles at both ends. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1137 2200 0415096243 Il ne faut pas changer d'attelage au milieu d'un gué. Don't change horses in midstream. When in water it is ardous to mount and dismount. "Once you have embarked on a course of action or an undertaking, it is better not to change your tactics or methods along the way." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA63 18 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 63 Strauss Emanuel Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT565 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 857 Il ne faut pas confondre vitesse et précipitation. One must not confuse speed with haste. English equivalent: More haste, less speed. Rozé Sylvie Le livre des proverbes https://books.google.com/books?id=LvRXS1MykbEC&pg=PT499 2012 978-2-258-09191-7 499 Il ne faut pas jeter les perles devant les poureaux. Do not throw pearls before swine. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 22 Il ne faut pas jouer avec le feu. Do not play with edged tools. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 716 2200 0415096243 Il ne faut point parler de corde dans la maison d'un pendu. Name not a rope in his house who hanged himself. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 86 176 Il n'ya a pas de secrets pour le temps. English equivalent: There is nothing hidden that will not become public. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.se/books?id=RzctBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&dq=Es+ist+nichts+so+fein+gesponnen,+es+kommt+doch+an+die+Sonnen+dictionary+of+european+proverbs&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiO5Mqc_970AhUxRPEDHRxKAOYQ6AF6BAgEEAM#v=onepage&q=Es%20ist%20nichts%20so%20fein%20gesponnen%2C%20es%20kommt%20doch%20an%20die%20Sonnen%20dictionary%20of%20european%20proverbs&f=false II 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 771-773 921 Il n'y a point d'église où le diable n'ait sa chapelle. Where god has a church the devil will have his chapel. "Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it." Source for meaning: Kelly Walter Keating W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) Proverbs of all nations 1859 130 238 Source for proverb: Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 874 2200 0415096243 Il n'y a point d'homme necessaire. No man is indispensable. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 319 504 0415160502 Il n'y a que la foi que sauve. Faith is half the battle. "The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour." Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Libri Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 812 2200 0415096243 Il n'est pire aveugle que celui qui ne veut pas voir. There are none so blind as they who will not see. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 320 0415160502 Il ne faut pas faire ces choses a moitié. If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well. Runge Martin 2 2000 Geriatrische Rehabilitation im Therapeutischen Team Georg Thieme Verlag 282 569 3131023821 Il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences. Appearances deceive. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 124 0415160502 Il ne faut pas mettre tous ses œufs dans le même panier. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. '"Spread your risks or investments so that if one enterprise fails you will not lose everything." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA63 18 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 63 Source: Strauss E. 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 715 2200 9780415103800 Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Source: Marchand C. 1905 Five thousand French idioms, Gallicisms, proverbs, idiomatic adverbs, idiomatic adjectives, idiomatic comparisons (book) J. Terquem et cie. 290 Il ne faut pas réveiller le chat qui dort. Let sleeping dogs lie. Source: Strauss E. 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 1055 2200 9780415103800 Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tué. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. Don't sell the bearskin before you've killed the bear. Source: Strauss E. 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 640 2200 9780415103800 Il tirerait de l'huile d'un mur. Derive the oil of a wall. All is fish that comes to the net. Meaning: "Anything that comes along is accepted and turned to advantage." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC 16 June 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 5 {{cite book | last1 = Mawr | first = E.B. | year = 1885 | titl Il vaut mieux suer que trembler. Better to hold with the hound than run with the hare. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 17 504 0415160502 Il vaut mieux plier que rompre. Better bow than break. Meaning: "It is better to make some confession, or pay a little deference to others, our neighbors, friends, acquaintances, and especially our superiors, rather than lose our credit or break friendship." Source for meaning of Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46 1845 Munroe and Company 46 Ward Caroline National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20 1842 J.W. Parker 20 Il vaut mieux qu'on dise "il court-là", qu'"il gît ici". He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day. "It is wiser to withdraw from a situation that you cannot win than to go on fighting and lose – by a strategic retreat you can return to the battle or argument with renewed energy at a later date." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA123 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 123 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 702 2200 0415096243 Il y a serpent caché sous des fleurs. English equivalent: Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend https://books.google.se/books?id=dJdYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA177&dq=Ne%27+fiori+cova+la+serpe.+sprichw%C3%B6rter&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiij5-pqu31AhUoQvEDHWZlAWsQ6AF6BAgCEAI#v=onepage&q=Ne'%20fiori%20cova%20la%20serpe.%20sprichw%C3%B6rter&f=false 1875 German ÏI 177-178 315, Schlange Il y a péril en la demeure. English equivalent: There is danger in delay. "Hesitation or procastination may lead to trouble or disaster." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA53 10 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 53 L. C. Dorn Recueil de Phrases Sentences & Proverbes français les plus usités et les plus communs à l'usage de la jeunesse Allemande, afin de lui Faciliter le langage Français, et pour habituer les les jeunes gens à s'exprimer correctement et à être à même, de traduire les différents idiotismes de leur propre langue dans ceux d'une langue étrangère, suivi d'un vocabulaire pour faciliter l'intelligence du texte https://books.google.com/books?id=JMRDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA87 1857 F. Knörr 87 Il ya anguille sous rouche. English equivalent: To smell a rat. Isaac Marcus Calisch Proverbes et locutions familières en quatre langues: (français-anglais-allemand-hollandais) : avec une liste alphabétique pour chaque langue séparément https://books.google.com/books?id=ynRWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA110 1876 Belinfante 110 J Jamais deux sans trois. When it rains it pours. Dictionnaire des proverbes anglais-français, français-anglais http://books.google.com/books?id=Hhi0qA7MiigC&pg=PA54 1 January 1998 Presses Université Laval 978-2-7637-7606-4 54 Jamais paresseux n'eut grande écuelle. Poverty is the reward of idleness. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT724 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 252 267 Je crains l'homme d'un seul livre. Fear the man of one book. "To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance." Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 851 2200 0415096243 Jamais honteux n'eut belle amie. Faint heart never won fair lady. "Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence." Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (65) Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 30 Jeter de l'huile sur le feu. To add fuel to the fire. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 78 Jeunneuse pauresse, viellise pouilleuse. Diligent youth makes easy age. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 701 2200 0415096243 Juge hâtif est périlleux. Quick judgments are dangerous. Hasty judgment leads to repentance. Meaning: A quick evaluation is a terrible evaluation. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 196 2200 0415096243 Juge l'oiseau à la plume et au chant, et au parler l'homme bon ou méchant. English equivalent: The bird is known by his note, the man by his words. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT39 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 39 222 L L'herbe est toujours plus verte dans le pré du voisin. English equivalent: The grass is always greener on the far side of the hill. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT196 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 196 1289 L'histoire se répète. English equivalent: History repeats itself. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT213 978-1-4660-4673-3 213–214 1408 L'opinio est la reine du monde. English equivalent: Opinion is the queen of the world. La barbe ne fait pas le philosophe. English equivalent: It is not the beard that makes the philosopher. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT29 2001 DeProverbio.com 978-1-4660-4673-3 29 146 La caque sent toujours le hareng. A herring barrel will always smell of herring. English equivalent: What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh. Mawr Mrs. E. B. Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages https://books.google.com/books?id=drU3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA97-IA1 1885 98 W Le chemin le plus long est quelquefois le plus court. English equivalent: He that leaves the highway to cut short, commonly goes about. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT213 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 213 1405 Le client a toujours raison. English equivalent: The customer is always right. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT90 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 90 572 Le meilleur est toujours le moins cher. English equivalent: The best goods are cheapest in the end. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT37 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 37 206 Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. English equivalent: The good is the enemy of the best. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT37 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 37–38 209 La nécessité est la mère des inventions. English equivalent: Necessity is the mother of invention. von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld Ida von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen https://books.google.com/books?id=iNNmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA107 1875 German 107 194, Noth L'argent est fait pour rouler. Money is there to be spent. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1013 2200 0415096243 L'art est de cacher l'art. English equivalent: The best art conceals art. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 2001 DeProverbio.com 978-1-4660-4673-3 20 81 E L'art est long, la vie est courte. English equivalent: Life is short, and art long. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 20 84 L'attaque est la meilleure défence. The best defence is a good offense. "You are more likely to win if you take the initiative and make an attack rather than preparing to defend yourself." Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA21 30 June 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 21 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 518 2200 0415096243 L'envieux maigrit de l'embonpoint des autres. English equivalent: Envy is its own torturer. Quitard Pierre-Marie Dictionnaire étymologique, historique et anecdotique des proverbes et des locutions proverbiales de la langue française en rapport avec des proverbes et des locutions proverbiales des autres langues https://books.google.com/books?id=s3-reG5X1twC&pg=PA345 1842 345 Envie La belle plume fait le bel oiseau. Fine feathers make fine birds. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 30 La borne sied trèg bien entre les champs de deux frères. English equivalentː A hedge between keeps friends green. Reinsberg-Düringsfeld Ida von Düringsfeld Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen vergleichend zusammengestellt von I. von Düringsfeld und O. Freiherrn von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld https://books.google.com/books?id=NaT4ynv1ZTMC&pg=PA74 1875 German 74 128, Nachbarn La confiance appelle la confiance. Confidence begets confidence. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 187 2200 0415096243 La femme du cordonnier est toujours mal chaussée. The cobbler's wife is the worst shod. "Working hard for others one may neglect one's own needs or the needs of those closest to him." Source for proverbs and meaning: Paczolay Gyula European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese http://books.google.com/books?id=JiXzAAAAMAAJ 1997 Veszprémi Nyomda 1-875943-44-7 65 7 La fortune ne fait pas le bonheur. Wealth rarely brings happiness. "The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative." Martina Navratilova, Martina (1985). Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 670 2200 0415096243 La nuit tous les chats sont gris. At night all cats are grey. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 10 La parole a été donnée à l'homme pour déguiser sa pensée. Men talk only to conceal the mind. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 1088 0415096243 La parole s'enfuit, et l'écriture demeure. Paper is forbearing. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1160 2200 0415096243 La punition boite, mais elle arrive. Punishment is lame but it comes. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 682 2200 0415096243 La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. Might is always right. Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, I., 10, "Le Loup et L'Agneau"; reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 116. La répétition est la mère de la mémoire. Repetition is the mother of memory. "Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed." Samuel Johnson, The Rambler (1750) Méchin Colette Illustrated 1998 Anthropologie du sensoriel: les sens dans tous les sens Harmattan 102 246 2738471129 La seconde pensée est la meilleure. Second thoughts are best. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 73 La variété plaît. Variety is the spice of life. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 89 0415160502 La vérité est dans le vin. In wine there is truth. "Alcohol consumed removes the inhibition against telling the truth that occasionally one would like to keep secret." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 272 527 1-875943-44-7 La vérité se dit en badinant. Many a true words are spoken in jest. "A joke's a very serious thing." Charles Churchill, The Ghost (1763), book iv, line 1386 Kelly Walter Keating 1859 Proverbs of all nations W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) 57 238 La parole est l'ombre du fait. Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves. "Mere words have no value unless they are followed by positive action." Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 26 176 Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA53 9 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 53 La patience est la vertu du sage. English equivalent: Patience is a virtue, and a little will not hurt you. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages https://archive.org/details/analogousproverb00mawrrich/page/68/mode/2up 69 P Langue muette n'est jamais battue. Least said, soonest mended. "In private animosities and verbal contentions, where angry passions are apt to rise, and irritating, if not profane expressions are often made use of, the least said, the better in general. By multiplying words, cases often grow worse instead of better." Source for meaning of Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA125 1845 Munroe and Company 125 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 975 2200 0415096243 L'essentiel du courage c'est la prudence. Discretion is the better part of valor. "Keep your friends close, your enemies closer." Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (1974). This has been variously attributed to Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, or Petrarch, but no published sources predating the film have yet been found. Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA53 10 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 53 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 702 2200 0415096243 Le fait juge l'homme. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. "The taste, not the looks, must constitute the criterion. It may be like, many other things, beautiful externally but within devoid of every excellence." William Henry Porter Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA176 1845 Munroe and Company 176 Source for proverb: Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 304 2200 0415096243 Le mal appelle le mal. Deep calls to deep. "The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution." Russell L. Ackoff, The development of operations research as a science (1956) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 695 2200 0415096243 Le meilleur n'en vaut rien. Bad is the best choice. "I always search good in bad. l also search bad in good." Vennu Malesh, It's My Life (2012) Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 17 Le miel est doux, mais l'abeille pique. He that will not endure the bitter, will not live to see the sweet. "I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." Michael Jordan, As quoted in Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh (1998), by Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson, p. 49 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 837 2200 0415096243 Les fous inventent les modes, et les sages les suivent. A fool may give a wise man counsel. "Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers." Muhammad, The Last Sermon of Muhammad delivered on the Ninth Day of Dhul Hijjah 10 A.H (c. 630 AD) Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 40 504 0415160502 Le plus grand malheur ou bonheur de l'homme est une femme. English equivalents: Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. Use great prudence and circumspection, in choosing thy wife, for from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life like unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once. William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Certain Precepts Or Directions for the Well-Ordering and Carriage of a Man's Life (c. 1584, first published 1617). Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 65 2200 0415096243 La pomme ne tombe jamais loin de l'arbre. The apple does not fall far from the tree. "Children observe daily and — in their behaviour — often follow the example of their parents." Source for proverbs and meaning: Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 259 527 1-875943-44-7 Le remède est pire que le mal. The remedy is often worse than the disease; Burn not your house to rid it off the mouse. "Action taken to put something right is often more unpleasant or damaging than the original problem." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA232 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 232 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge entry 646 2200 0415096243 Le temps et l'usage rendent l'homme sage. Books know more than years. Source: Strauss E. 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 660 2200 9780415103800 Le trop de précautions ne nuit jamais. Better safe than sorry. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 881 2200 0415096243 Les absents ont toujours tort. The absent are always in the wrong. "One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license." Patrick Jake O'Rourke Rolling Stone (30 November 1989) "Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse." Len Deighton, quoting an anonymous Czechoslovakian joke in the 1960s, in Funeral in Berlin (1964), p. 145. Philippe Néricault Destouches, L’Obstacle Imprévu, Act I., Scene VI (translation by Nérine); alternately reported as "L’absent a toujours tort" ("The absent are always in the wrong"), Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, Livre IV; reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 140. Les cordonniers sont les plus mal chaussés. The shoemaker goes barefoot. "Working hard for others one may neglect one's own needs or the needs of those closest to him." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 65 527 1-875943-44-7 Dictionnaire des proverbes anglais-français, français-anglais http://books.google.com/books?id=Hhi0qA7MiigC&pg=PA106 8 August 2013 1 January 1998 Presses Université Laval 978-2-7637-7606-4 106 Les goûts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas. There's no accounting for tastes; Different strokes suit different folks. "Criticism, whatever may be its pretensions, never does more than to define the impression which is made upon it at a certain moment by a work wherein the writer himself noted the impression of the world." James Branch Cabell, in The Certain Hour (1916). Henry Jacqueline 2003 La traduction des jeux de mots Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle 63 298 2878542487 Les grands diseurs ne sont pas les grands faiseurs. Big talkers are not big doers. English equivalentː Great talkers are little doers. "Well done is better than well said." Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT398 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 398– Les soucis font blanchir les cheveux de bonne heure. Fretting cares make grey hairs. Source for proverb: Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 631 2200 0415096243 L'enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions. English equivalent: The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. McGrath Edna Arseneault 2004 Voir l'invisible, réaliser l'impossible: biographie de Jean-Paul Losier Editions Melonic 2923080068 33 229 L'envie s'attache à la gloire. Envy always shooteth at a high mark. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 766 2200 0415096243 L'habit ne fait pas le moine. You can't judge a book by its cover. Ndedi-Penda, P. (2003). L'habit ne fait pas le moine, Publications Galaxie. L'histoire se répéte. Something that has happened once can happen again. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 977 2200 0415096243 L'homme propose, et Dieu dispose. Man proposes, God disposes; Everything in its season. "Plans are insulted destinies. I don't have plans, I only have goals." Ash Chandler, Freudian Slip, Mumbai Mirror Buzz, April 2006. Source: Bohn Henry George 1857 A Polyglott of Foreign Proverbs 37 L'honnêteté est la meilleure politique. Honesty is the best policy. "Being honest or telling the truth is always the wisest course of action." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA128 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 128 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 42 Loin des yeux, près du coeur. English equivalent: Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT7 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 7 1 E L'on passe la haie par où elle est plus basse. Men leap over where the hedge is lower. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1087 2200 0415096243 L'on ne saurait écorcher une pierre. English equivalent: You cannot get blood from a stone. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1040 2200 0415096243 L'or force le verrou. A golden key opens any gate but that of heaven. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 31 Le chien aboit, la caravane passe. The dogs bark, but the caravan passes on. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 340 0415160502 La fortune sourit aux audacieux. Fortune favours the brave. "Those who act boldly or courageously are most likely to succeed." Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA94 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 94 Source: Strauss E. 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 871 2200 9780415103800 Le fil ténu casse. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Meaning: "A weak part or member will affect the success or effectiveness of the whole." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA38 31 July 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 38 Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 19 504 0415160502 L'espoir fait vivre. Where there's life, there's hope. Strauss E. 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 982 2200 9780415103800 Les habitudes ont la vie dure. Old habits die hard. Source: Revue internationale de philosophie Source: v. 57 223--226. Les bons comptes font les bons amis. Short reckonings make long friends. Strauss E. 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 674 2200 9780415103800 Le monde appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Lamy M.N. Towell R. 1998 The Cambridge French-English Thesaurus Cambridge University Press 33 9780521425810 Les apparences sont trompeuses. All that glitters is not gold. Meaning: An attractive appearance may be deceptive. It may cover or hide a much less favourable content. Source for meaning: Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 114 527 1-875943-44-7 Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 15 0415160502 Les grands voleurs pendent les petits. Men are like fish, the big ones devour the small. "A weak person/group/community/country can be an easy prey to an immoral, powerful one." Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1086 2200 0415096243 Source for meaning: Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 420 527 1-875943-44-7 Les rats quittent le navire qui coule. Rats desert a sinking ship. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1150 2200 0415096243 La nuit porte conseil. Night brings counsel. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 188 0415160502 La parole est d'argent, mais le silence est d'or. Speech is silver, Silence is golden. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 257 0415160502 Loin des yeux, loin du cœur. Out of sight, out of mind. Source: Strauss E. 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 814 2200 9780415103800 Les murs ont des oreilles. Walls have ears. "What you say may be overheard; used as a warning." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA354 27 September 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 287 Source: Courbou Michèle 2006 Les murs ont des oreilles, Volume 58 of L'écailler du Sud Les Editions L'Ecailler du Sud 351 2914264828 Les plaisanteries les plus courtes sont les meilleures. Brevity is the soul of wit. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 174 0415160502 Les premiers seront les derniers. The last will be first, and the first last. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1085 2200 0415096243 Les volontés sont libres. His own desire leads every man. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 977 2200 0415096243 M Mettre la charrue devant les bœufs. Don't put the cart before the horse. "It is important to do things in the right or natural order." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA63 18 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 63 Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 106 176 Même le divine Homère sommeille quelquefois. English equivalent: Even Homer sometimes nods. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT215 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 215 1420 H Mieux vaut que entre fou avec tous que sage tout seul. Better foolish by all than wise by yourself. Emanuel Strauss Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.se/books?id=RzctBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA22&dq=Better+be+foolish+with+all+than+wise+by+yourself+european+proverbs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAWoVChMI8qOljOzIxwIVgwgsCh3NsQBE#v=onepage&q=Better%20be%20foolish%20with%20all%20than%20wise%20by%20yourself%20european%20proverbs&f=false 70 Mieux vaut savoir que richesse. A good mind possess a kingdom. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 58 504 0415160502 Mieux vaut peu que rien. Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 75 504 0415160502 Mieux vaut tenir que courir. A bird in hand is worth two in a bush. "Something you have for certain now is of more value than something better you may get, especially if you risk losing what you have in order to get it." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC 29 July 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 28 Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 8 0415160502 Mieux vaut être seul que mal accompagné. Better be alone than in bad company. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 163 0415160502 Mieux vaut faire que dire. Well done is better than well said. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 191 0415160502 Mieux vaut prévenir que guérir. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 8 0415160502 Mieux vaut un présent que deux futurs. One today is worth two tomorrows. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1137 2200 0415096243 Mieux vaut un sage ennemi qu'un sot ami. English equivalent: A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT129 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 129 832 Monter sur ses grands chevaux. English equivalent: Riding the high horse. de Backer George Dictionnaire des proverbes françois. Avec l'explication de leurs significations, et une partie de leur origine ... Par G. D. B. [i.e. G. de Backer.] https://books.google.com/books?id=QO_eP3fvDXAC&pg=PP192 1710 French 192 Monter N Nature passe nourriture, et nourriture survainc nature. Nature is beyond all teaching. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 764 2200 0415096243 Ne meurs cheval, herbe te vient. While the grass grows the steed starves. Meaning: Dreams or expectations may be realized too late. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1228 2200 0415096243 Ne te mêle pas des affaires d'autrui. Give neither salt nor counsel till you are asked for it. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 60 Ne touchez pas aux blessures guéries. It is not wise to open old wounds. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 45 La nuit porte conseil. The night brings counsel. Take counsel of one's pillow. Note: Specified as a French proverb in the source. Kelly Walter Keating W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) Proverbs of all nations 1859 63 238 Noblesse oblige. Nobility forces. Meaning: With great resources comes great responsibility. Applegate, S. (2009). Noblesse Oblige: Spending Your Life on What Matters Most, Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc. O Oignez vilain, il vous poindra. Poignez vilain, il vous oindra. Anoint a villain, he will stab you; stab a villain, he will anoint you (oindre and poindre being outdated verbs) François Rabelais, Gargantua, I., 32; reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 166. On a que ce que l'on mérite. What goes around comes around. Labourdette Jean-Paul 23 2007 Le Petit Futé Grenoble Petit Futé 9 336 2746919494 On ne tue pas le loup parce qu'il est gris, mais parce qu'il a dévoré la brebis. The sin is not in the sinning, but in the being found out. Emanuel Strauss Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=RzctBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA348 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78971-7 348 On naît poète, on devient orateur. Poets are born, but orators are trained. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 331 504 0415160502 On n'est jamais si bien servi que par soi-même. If you want something done right, do it yourself. Charles-Guillaume Étienne, Bruïs et Palaprat, Sc. II. — (translation by Palaprat); reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 169. On revient toujoursà ses premières amours. True love never rusts. Charles-Guillaume Étienne, Joconde, Act III., Scene I (translation by Joconde); reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 172. On ne change pas une équipe qui gagne. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Source: Mould Michael 2011 The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French Taylor & Francis 51 1136825738 On ne fait pas boire un âne qui n'a pas soif. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Source: Strauss E. 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 1016 2200 9780415103800 On ne jette des pierres qu'a l'arbre chargé de fruits. No enemies is a sign fortune forgotten you. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1008 2200 0415096243 On ne peut aider qui ne veut point écouter. He that will not be counseled cannot be helped. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 964 2200 0415096243 On ne prend pas les oiseaux à la tartelle. Deal gently with the bird you mean to catch. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 689 2200 0415096243 On prend plus de mouches avec du miel qu'avec du vinaigre. You can catch more flies with a drop of honey than with a barrel of vinegar. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 100 Oy, voy te tas, A tu veux vivre in paix. Latin equivalent: Hear, see, be silent, if you wish to live (in peace). Bailey Nathan An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, etc https://books.google.com/books?id=uqGiqamg9vMC&pg=PT223 1728 223 Peacable P Par savoir vient avoir. Learning is the eye of the mind. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 149 504 0415160502 Patience et longueur de temps font plus que force ni que rage. English equivalent. He that can have patience can have what he will. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 87 504 0415160502 Patience passe science. An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 415 2200 0415096243 Pendant le faveur de la fortune, il faut se préparer à sa défaveur. If fortune favours, beware of being exalted; if fortune thunders, beware of being overwhelmed. Strauss Emanuel Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT769 II 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 769–770 1281 Personne ne peut être juge dans sa propre cause. No one can be the judge in his own case. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1038 2200 0415096243 Petit poisson deviendra grand. The little fish will grow big. Jean de La Fontaine, "Le petit Poisson et le Pêcheur", Fables, V., 3; reported in Thomas pogield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 177. Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse. A rolling stone gathers no moss. "There are a Set of People in the World who before they are well fettled in one Habitation, remove to another: fuch Perfons fall under the Doom of this Proverb." Source for meaning of Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 Paczolay Gyula European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese http://books.google.com/books?id=JiXzAAAAMAAJ 1997 Veszprémi Nyomda 1-875943-44-7 100 14 Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Variant: Plus ça change, plus c'est pareil. The more things change, the more they stay the same. "You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more – I want better." Ray Bradbury, Beyond 1984: The People Machines. (1979) An epigram by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in the January 1849 issue of his journal Les Guêpes ("The Wasps"). Point d’argent, point de Suisse. No money, no Swiss. Dictionnaire des proverbes françois: Avec l'explication de leurs significations, une partie de leur origine. Le tout tiré & recueilli des meilleurs autheurs de ce dernier siecle https://books.google.com/books?id=CfNWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP239 1710 Georges De Backer French 239 Point Pour estimer le doux, il faut goûter de l'amer. To taste the sweet, you must taste the bitter. No pain, no gain; Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Meaning: Where there is no adversity of some sort there is seldom anything to win; No or little adversity is a sign that fortune has forgotten you. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 33 176 Pour un de perdu, deux de retrouvés. When one door closes another opens. Meaning: "When baffled in one direction a man of energy will not despair, but will find another way to his object." Source for meaning of Proverbs of All Nations http://books.google.com/books?id=PdxtAAAAMAAJ 1859 W. Kent & Company (late D. Bogue) 67 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 845 2200 0415096243 Prudence est la mère de súreté. Diffidence is the right eye of prudence. Meaning: Diffidently pondering something will often lead to a sensible solution. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 701 2200 0415096243 Q Quand mes amis me prient il n'y a point de demain. English equivalent: When thy friend asks, let there be no to-morrow. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT173 978-1-4660-4673-3 173–174 1140 Quand on dîne avec le diable, il faut se munir d'une longue cuiller. English equivalent: He who sups with the devil must use a long spoon. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 920 0415160502 Quand on habite une maison de verre, il ne faut pas lancer des pierres. English equivalentː People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT182 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 182 1201 Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, il faut aimer ce que l'on a. If we have not the thing we love, then must we love the thing we have. Bussy Rabutin, Lettre à Mme. de Sivigni (23 May, 1667); variant "n'a pas ce qu'on aime", by Thomas Corneille, L'lnconnu, Nouveau Prologue, Scene II (translation by Crispin); both reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 188. Quand on n'a pas de tête, il faut avoir des jambes. Who falls short in the head must be long in the heels. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT412 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 140 149 Quand on n'avance pas, on recule. He who does not advance goes backwards. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 445 2200 0415096243 Que trebuche et ne tombe pas avancer son chemin. He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace. "If you possess the ability to learn from your mistakes, then failure is literally impossible, because each rejection brings you closer to perfection." Neil Strauss, Rules of the Game (2007) George Bohn Henry A polyglot of foreign proverbs: Comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish, with English transl. and a general index https://books.google.com/books?id=AWFjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA53 1857 53 Qui ne dit mot, consent. English equivalent: Silence gives consent. Dejardin Joseph Dictionnaire des spots ou proverbes wallons ...: contenant ... les travaux de MM. Defrecheux, Delarge et Alexandre https://books.google.com/books?id=INg3AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA200 1863 French 200 586, Dire Qui a age, doit être sage. Reason does not come before years. Meaning: Wisdom acquired by adversity makes us reasonable as we get older. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1150 2200 0415096243 Qui a bu, boira. Once a drunkard always a drunkard; Once a thief always a thief. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 771 2200 0415096243 Qui a froid souffle le feu. English equivalent: Fuel without fire is soon quenched. "You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last." Marcus Aurelius, 'Meditations (c. 121–180 AD) "Nothing is so hateful to the philistine as the 'dreams of his youth.' ... For what appeared to him in his dreams was the voice of the spirit, calling him once, as it does everyone. It is of this that youth always reminds him, eternally and ominously. That is why he is antagonistic toward youth. Walter Benjamin, "Experience" (1913) as translated by L. Spencer and S. Jost, in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 1 (1996), pp. 4-5 Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA77 1842 J.W. Parker 77 Qui a tête de cire ne doit pas s'approcher du feu. He who has a wax head must not go near the fire. He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun. Meaning: Know your limitations and weaknesses; Don't do something that is sure to damage you. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 54 176 Qui aime Dieu est sûr en tout lieu. He who serves God has a good master. "The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak." Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Politique Tirée de l'Écriture Sainte (Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture) (1679 - published 1709). Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 873 2200 0415096243 Que bien aime, tard oublie. True love never grows old. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1107 2200 0415096243 Qui court deux lièvres à la fois, n'en prend aucun. You must not run after two hares at the same time. Meaning: "Concentrate on one thing at a time or you will achieve nothing. - Trying to do two or more things at a time, when even one on its own needs full effort, means that none of them will be accomplished properly." Source for meaning of Paczolay Gyula European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese http://books.google.com/books?id=JiXzAAAAMAAJ 1997 Veszprémi Nyomda 1-875943-44-7 X X Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 102 Qui écoute aux portes, entend souvent sa propre honte. Eavesdroppers hear no good of themselves. Meaning: "People who eavesdrop on the conversations of others risk hearing unfavorable comments about themselves; used as a warning or reprimand." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA171 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 171 Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT684 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 238 250 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 764 2200 0415096243 Qui m'aime aime mon chien. Love me, love my dog. Who loves me, loves my dog. Compare in Latin: Qui me amat, amat et canem meum. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), French abbot (and who is not the St Bernard for whom that breed of dog is named, that's Bernard of Menthon). Quoted by Nigel Rees in Why Do We Say? (1987). Qui mal commence, mal achève. A bad beginning makes a bad ending. Meaning: "It is as impossible that a system radically erroneous, once commenced, should end well, as it is that a mathematical problem, commenced wrong, should come out right." Source for meaning: William Henry Porter Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA202 1845 Munroe and Company 202 Emanuel Strauss Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT9 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 1 1 Qui ne fait pas quand póte, nu face cand vrea. He that will not when he may, when he will he may have nay. Meaning: "Take advantage of an opportunity when it presents itself, even if you do not want or need it at the time, because it may no longer be available when you do." Source for meaning of English equivalent:Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA120 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 120 Kelly Walter Keating 1859 Proverbs of all nations W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) 41 238 Qui ne risque rien n'a rien. Who risks nothing, gets nothing. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Meaning: It is necessary to take risks in order to achieve something. Hiligsmann, Theissen 2008 Néerlandais - Expressions et proverbes: Intermédiaire-avancé De Boeck Supérieur 338 2804159671 Qui ne sait obéir, ne sait commander. Who has not served cannot command. Meaning: One must have been controlled in the same situation one wishes to properly control others. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 758 2200 0415096243 Qui parle trop, manque souvent. Least said, soonest mended. Meaning: "In private animosities and verbal contentions, where angry passions are apt to rise, and irritating, if not profane expressions are often made use of, as we sometimes see to be the case, not only among neighbors, but in families, between husbands and wives, or parents and children, or the children themselves and other members of the household, - the least said, the better in general. By multiplying words, cases often grow worse instead of better." Source for meaning of Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA125 1845 Munroe and Company 125 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 53 Qui parle trop, personne ne l'écoute. Who talks too much, nobody listens to. Length begets loathing. Meaning: "Nobody likes a long-winded speaker or writer." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA164 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 164 Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 33 176 Quj s'attend aux souliers d un mort court que de marcher longtemps nu pieds. English equivalent: Don't wait for dead mens shoes. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen https://books.google.se/books?id=M8OMsKaoaqEC&pg=PA44&dq=He+that+waits+for+dead+men%27s+shoes+may+go+long+barefoot+sprichw%C3%B6rter+der+germanischen+und+romanischen&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQyfLH86TzAhUhSfEDHZPLCtsQ6AF6BAg6EAI#v=onepage&q=He%20that%20waits%20for%20dead%20men's%20shoes%20may%20go%20long%20barefoot%20sprichw%C3%B6rter%20der%20germanischen%20und%20romanischen&f=false 1875 German I 44-45 95 Andern Qui s'attend à l'accueil d'autrui, a souvent mal dîné. English equivalent: He that waits on another man's trencher, makes many a late dinner. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 55 176 Qui s'attend à l'ecuelle d'autrui est sujet å mal dîner (a souvent mauvais dîner) (dîne souvent par coeur). English equivalent: He that waits on another man's trencher, makes many a late dinner. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen https://books.google.se/books?id=M8OMsKaoaqEC&pg=PA46&dq=Iscuru+a+quie+ispectat+pranzu+de+domo+anzena+sprichw%C3%B6rter+der+germanischen+und+romanischen&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUjaCLmqbzAhWhSfEDHWVRCcEQ6AF6BAgDEAI#v=onepage&q=Iscuru%20a%20quie%20ispectat%20pranzu%20de%20domo%20anzena%20sprichw%C3%B6rter%20der%20germanischen%20und%20romanischen&f=false 1875 German I 45-46 96 Qui se détourne évite le danger. "Better put an end to a troublesome business than to be always vex'd with it." James Kelly A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs Explained and Made Intelligible to the English Reader http://books.google.com/books?id=tsBCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA35 1818 Rodwell and Martin 35 Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 11 176 Qui se resemble, s'assemble. Like will to like. "Every man loves well what is like to himself." Folk-Etymology http://books.google.com/books?id=fXrlvr_kPXwC&pg=PA216 Ardent Media 216 1886 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 51 Qui se sent - se mouche. English equivalent: If the shoe fits, wear it. "No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself." Henry Brooks Adams, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904) Spiers Alexander The Standard Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages ... https://books.google.com/books?id=KyQYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA391 1871 D.Appleton and Company 391 Morveux Qui sème peu, peu récolte. Sow thin, shear thin. "Rest is a necessity, not an objective. It is better to aim the spear at the moon and strike the eagle, than to aim at the eagle and strike only a rock." Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces To The LIfe Puzzle (1991) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1158 2200 0415096243 Qui s'excuse, s'accuse. Who makes excuses, himself accuses; or He who excuses himself accuses himself. Gabriel Meurier, Trésor des Sentences; reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 196. Qui trop embrasse mal étreint. Grasp all, lose all. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 23 0415160502 Qui se croit sage est un grand fou. The first chapter of fools is to think themselves wise. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 879 2200 0415096243 Qui se fait brebis, le loup le mange. He that makes himself an ass must not take it ill if men ride him. Meaning: Other people will abuse you, if you let them. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 676 2200 0415096243 Qui sème le vent, récolte la tempête. Translation 1: As you sow, so you shall reap. Translation 2: He who sows the wind shall reap the storm. Meaning: Your actions all have consequences. Source: Cassagne Jean-Marie 1998 101 French proverbs: understanding French language and culture through common sayings McGraw-Hill 106 160 0844212911 Qui va doucement, va loin. English equivalent: By perserverance the snail reached the arc. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen https://books.google.se/books?id=QLwN5OGIZs0C&pg=PA17&dq=Qu%C3%AE+va+douc%E2%80%99mint,+va+longtimps+sprichw%C3%B6rter+der+germanischen+und+romanischen&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiv8pXUjv3yAhUtQ_EDHaJqC3cQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=Qu%C3%AE%20va%20douc%E2%80%99mint%2C%20va%20longtimps%20sprichw%C3%B6rter%20der%20germanischen%20und%20romanischen&f=false 1875 16-17 35 Qui veut plaire à tout le monde doit se lever de bonne heure. He had need rise early who would please everybody. Meaning: "It is impossible to do something that everybody will approve of." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA313 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 313 Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA43 1842 J.W. Parker 43 Qui vole un œuf vole un bœuf. He who steals an egg will steal an ox. In for a penny, in for a pound. Meaning a person that steals something little/done something bad/ will probably end up steeling more valuable things/as a criminal. Bulman, F. (1998). Dictionnaire Des Proverbes Anglais-Francais, Francais-Anglais, Presses de l'Université Laval. R Rendre le bien pour le mal. If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Meaning: Make something good out of bad things that has happened to you. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 838 2200 0415096243 Rejeter le bon et le mauvais. To reject the good with the bad. Throw out the baby with the bath (water). Meaning: Do not reject an idea entirely because parts of it are bad; Someone who is absolutely right about parts of an idea, is surprisingly often wrong about another part of it. Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA66 25 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 66 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 715 2200 0415096243 Revenons à nos moutons. Let us get back to our sheep. Meaning: Let's get back to what we were saying, doing. La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin, Act III., scene IV. (Translation by Le Juge; Fournier's ed., 1872). Alternately reported as "Retournons à nos moutons", François Rabelais, Pantagruel, III., 34; "Revenons à nos moutons", Vincent Voiture, Epître à Mme. de Bambouillet, (Ed. Roux, p. 579.); Voltaire, Les Honnétetés Littéraires, Vol. VIII., p. 912; "Revenons a nos bouteilles"; Montaigne, Essais, II., 2, p. 17; "Revenons a nos soupers"; Jean Jacques Rousseau, La Nouvelle Heloïse, Pt. II, Lettre XVII. All are reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 200. Rome ne s'est pas faite en un jour. English equivalent: Rome wasn't built in a day. Bulman Françoise Dictionnaire des proverbes anglais-français, français-anglais https://books.google.com/books?id=Hhi0qA7MiigC&pg=PA89 1998 978-2-7637-7606-4 89 Patience - Anger S Sans deniers Georges ne chante. You can't get something for nothing. Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 799 0415096243 Sans tentation, il n'y a point de victoire. Where there is no temptation there is no glory. Without temptation there is no victory. Meaning: Not being tempted is a sign that fortune has forgotten you. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 156 176 Santé passe richesse. Good health is above wealth. "What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world-and loses his health?" Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 879 2200 0415096243 Se couper le nez pour faire dépit à son visage. English equivalent: He cut off his nose to spite his face. "Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service and pays the bitterest wages.  Its service is to watch the success of our enemies; its wages to be sure of it." Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon (1825). * Tallement des Réaux, Historiettes, Volume I, Chapter I (c. 1657–1659); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639. Si souhaits fussent vrays, Pastoreaulx seraient roys. English equivalent: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. von Düringsfeld Ida von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend https://books.google.com/books?id=TB9WAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA408 II 1875 German 408–409 721, Wünsche Si tu t'en fuis le, il te suivra, ce t'en fuiz, il s'en fuira. (old French) Follow glory and it will flee, flee glory and it will follow thee. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 832 2200 0415096243 Selon l'argent, la besogne. What pay, such work. You get what you pay for. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 494 2200 0415096243 Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. Youth is wasted on the young. If youth but knew, if old age but could. Meaning: You people lack common sense and wisdom, old people lack virility. Henri Estienne, Les Prémices, Epigramme CXCI; Marc Antoine Legrande, La Famille Extravagante, Divertissement (translation by Mme. Rissolé); both reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 208. Si la montagne ne va pas à Mahomet, Mahomet ira à la montagne. Translation and If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. Meaning: "If you cannot get what you want, you must adapt yourself to the circumstances or adopt a different approach." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA135 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 135 Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 1006 0415096243 Si le ciel tombait il y aurait bien des alouettes prises. If the sky falls, we shall catch larks. Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA65 1842 J.W. Parker 65 Si tous disent que tu es un âne, brais. When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1221 2200 0415096243 Souvent on a coutume de baiser la main qu'on voudrait qui fût brûlée. Many kiss the hand they wish cut off. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1084 2200 0415096243 T Tant crie l'on Noël, qu'il vient. (old French) So much does one shout "Christmas" that at last it comes! English equivalent: Long looked for comes at last "Who says you do not pass the test?" Selena Gomez, Beautiful (2011) François Villon, Ballade des Proverbes; reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 212. Tant va la cruche à l'eau qu'enfin elle se brise. Adrien de Montluc, Comedie de Proverbes, Act I, scene I (translation by Lidias); Molière, Le Festin de Pierre, Act V, scene II (translation by Sganarelle). So often does the jug go to water that in the end it breaks. Translation 1: Do not strain your luck. Translation 2: Anyone can only take so much. Alternately reported as Tant va pot à l'eve que brise., Pierre de St. Cloud, Roman du Benart, line 13,650; Jen qui trop dure ne vault rien, / Tant va le pot à l'eau qui brise., Charles d'Orléans, Rondel, XXXVII; Tant va le pot à l'eau qu'il brise. François Villon, Ballade des Proverbes; all reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 213. Tel maître, tel valet. Like master, like man. Meaning: You will become like the people you surround yourself with. If you surround yourself with wolves you will howl like them. Attributed to Bayard; compare Tel valet, tel maitre ("Like master, like man"), Collin d'Harleville, Les Chateaux en Espagne, Act I, Scene VIII (translation by M. D'Orlange); both reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 213. Tel père, tel fils. Such father, such sons. Like father, like son. Meaning: Sons may look and behave like their fathers. This is due to inheritance and the example observed closely and daily. Source for meaning and proverb: Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 137 527 1-875943-44-7 Telle mère, telle fille. Such mother, such daughter. Like mother, like daughter. Meaning: Daughters may look and behave like their mothers. This is due to inheritance and the example observed closely and rarely. Source for meaning and proverb: Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 137 527 1-875943-44-7 Tirer les marrons de la patte du chat. To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw. Molière, L'Étourdi, Act III. 6; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643. Tout ce qui branle ne tombe pas. Bitter pills may have blessed effects. "Present afflictions may tend to our future good." James Kelly A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs Explained and Made Intelligible to the English Reader http://books.google.com/books?id=tsBCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA43 1818 Rodwell and Martin 43 Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11 1842 J.W. Parker 11 Tout chemin mène à Rome. All roads lead to Rome. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 10 Tout est bien que finit bien. All is well that ends well. "Problems and misfortunes along the way can be forgotten as long as the end is satisfactory." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA14 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 14 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 7 Tout homme qui a compagnon d'office à un Maître. English equivalent: He that hath a fellow ruler, hath a fellow over-ruler. "One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists on having the last word." André Gide, Journals 1889–1949, (1917) translated by Justin O'Brien Guy Miège A new dictionary, french and english https://books.google.com/books?id=YbWtTwVbLioC&pg=PP832 1677 Basset 832 Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre. All things come to those who can wait. Every dog has his day. François Rabelais, Pantagruel, IV, 48; Adrien de Montluc, La Comedie de Proverbes, Act I, scene VII (translation by Florinde); Henri Estienne, Les Prémices, Epigramme 37; compare Attendez l'heure du berger; Tout vient à tems qui peut attendre ("Wait ye the shepherd’s hour; All comes in time to him who waits"), Bussy Babutin, Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules, Maximes d'Amour, (Ed. Cologne, 1716), p. 192); all reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 222. Trop enquérir n'est pas bon. Inquiring is not good. Curiosity killed the cat. Meaning: "Inquisitiveness – or a desire to find about something – can lead you into trouble." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA49 9 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 49 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 684 2200 0415096243 U Un ami est long à trouver et prompt à perdre. English equivalent: A friend is easier lost than found. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and French Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=0eSkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT112 2011 978-1-4659-0803-2 112 776 Un bon aujourd'hui vaut mieux que deux demain. English equivalent: One today is worth two tomorrows. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto 1875 Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend I https://books.google.se/books?id=S5dYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA381&dq=ein+heut+ist+besser+den+zehn+morgen+sprichw%C3%B6rter+der+germanischen&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjG7_D_qsX3AhXylYsKHS4YBL8Q6AF6BAgMEAM 381 726, Heut Un clou chasse l'autre. One nail drives out another. "As one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten." William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (1592) Marc Antoine Legrand, La Famille Extravagante, Divertissement, (translation by St. Germain); reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 225. Un jour sans vin est comme un jour sans soleil. A day without wine is like a day without sunshine. Source: "L'emprise du sens", page 303, 1999 Mark Plénat. Un mal et un péril ne vient jamais seul. Philippe de Commines, Mémoires, Livre III, Chapter V; reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 229. Variant: Un malheur n'arrive jamais seul. Molière, L'Amant Médecin, Act I, scene I (translation by Sganarelle). Un malheur nous est toujours l'avant-coureur d'un autre. Molière, Les Fourberies de Scapin, Act III, scene VII (translation by Geronte). Misery loves company. Un oeuf aujourd'hui vaut mieux qu'un poulet. English equivalent: Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto 1875 Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend I https://books.google.se/books?id=S5dYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA381&dq=Besser+heut+%27+ein+Ei+,+als+morgen+ein+kuchlein&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUlN7v8b33AhWoRvEDHTkBCnkQ6AF6BAgLEAM 381 725, heut Un peu d'aide fait grand bien. Every little helps. "All contributions, however small, are of use." Source for meaning of Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA78 20 September 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 77 Source for proverbs: Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 26 Un point fait à temps en sauve cent. A stitch in time saves nine. "No one needs to be told that a vast deal of labor is expended unnecessarily. This is occasioned, to a great extent, by the neglect of seasonable repairs." Source for meaning:Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA13 1845 Munroe and Company 13 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 6 Un tiens vaut, ce dit-on, mieux que deux tu l'auras. A bird in hand is worth two in a bush. "Something you have for certain now is of more value than something better you may get, especially if you risk losing what you have in order to get it." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA28 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 28 Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, V, 3, "Le Petit Poisson et le Pecheur"; reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 231. Alternately reported as Un tient vaut mieux que deux tu l'auras. Une hirondelle ne fait pas le printemps. A swallow doesn't make the summer. "The right way of Judging of Things is not from Particulars, but Univerſals." Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 Source: Cassagne Jean-Marie 1998 101 French proverbs: understanding French language and culture through common sayings McGraw-Hill 240 160 0844212911 Une pomme gâtée en gâte cent. English equivalent: One rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT17 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 17–18 69 E V Ventre affamé n'a point d'oreilles. Words are wasted on a starving man. The hungry belly has no ears. Rabelais, Pantagruel, III, 15; reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 234. Vive la différence. Long live the difference (between the sexes, or any difference). Hooray for the difference! English equivalent: It takes all kinds of people to make a world. Source: Vive la différence, Béatrice Levasseur, P. J.. Downes 1988. Vouloir, c'est pouvoir. Where there's a will there's a way. To want to is to be able to. Source: "Vouloir c'est pouvoir", Ivan Steenhout 1985. 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