Quotes from French proverb

Burgundy for Kings, Champagne for Duchesses, and claret for Gentlemen

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.

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

A white Christmas fills the churchyard.

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

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

Not the day only, but all things have their morning.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

Autumn is the hush before winter.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better.

Two souls, one heart.

The maxims of men disclose their hearts.

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

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

Proverbs are the literature of reason.

Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.

My whole heart for my whole life.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Anger is a bad counselor.

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.