Famous Proverbs
2232 Proverbs about French / Page 79
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Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.782.
Men's skins have many colors, but human blood is always red.783.
Mention not a rope in the house of one whose father was hanged.784.
Might knows no right.785.
Might overcomes right.786.
Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot.787.
Misfortune upon misfortune is not wholesome.788.
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.789.
Money advances meacocks.790.
Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.