French Proverb Quotes

Don't find fault with what you don't understand.

Where there's music there can be love.

We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.

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

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

Every art requires the whole person.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Who spits against the wind, spits in his own face.

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

To leave a place is to die a little.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

Love teaches even asses to dance.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.

He who is near the church is often far from God.

Follow the river and you will find the sea.

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow: it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.

Life is half spent before one knows what life is.

What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Life works out - but not as you expect it.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.