2214 French Proverbs / Page 176
- 1751. The pitcher goes often to the well and gets broken at last.
 - 1752. The pleasure of love lasts but a moment, The pain of love lasts a lifetime.
- 1753. The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
- 1754. The problem that has no name--which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities--is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our
- 1755. 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.
- 1756. The rich man has more relations than he knows about.
- 1757. The richest man carries nothing away with him but a shroud.
- 1758. The saint who works no cures has few pilgrims to his shrine.
- 1759. The saint's-day over, farewell the saint.
- 1760. The same heat that melts wax, bakes clay.
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