Quotes from French proverb

Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse et tout se remplace (Everything passes, everything weary, everything breaks and everything replaced).

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

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

What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.

There is one who kisses and the other who offers a cheek.

No rose without a thorn.

He who can lick can bite.

The price spoils the pleasure.

Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.

The tulip is, among flowers, what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent, a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb, the other in its tail.

A white wall is the fool's paper.

Only great men may have great faults.

There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.

A good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle.

When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

Gratitude is the heart's memory.

To want to forget something is to think of it.