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French Proverbs

The future belongs to the man who rises early.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.

The sea has an enormous thirst and an insatiable appetite.

Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow.

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.

They will be hushed by a good deed who laugh at a wise speech.

It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.

No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.

Life is an onion which one peels crying.

If you would understand men, study women.

Only he who does nothing makes a mistake.

To be loved is the best way of being useful.

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.

Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.

He who gives to the poor loans to God.

It is by forging that one becomes a blacksmith.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.

Always talk big and you will never be forgotten.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do.

Police are everywhere, justice is nowhere.