2214 French Proverbs / Page 96
1901.
To go as fast as a friar that is invited to dinner.1902.
To grow rich one has only to turn his back on God.1903.
To heaven for the music but to hell for a good conversation.1904.
To know a man well one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him.1905.
To know all is to forgive all.1906.
To leave a place is to die a little.1907.
To leave is to die a little.1908.
To love and to be wise are two different things.1909.
To love is to choose.1910.
To make a happy couple, the husband must be deaf and the wife blind.1911.
To one who has a pie in the oven you may give a bit of your cake.1912.
To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine.1913.
To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a man live years ten times ten.1914.
To rob a robber is not robbing.1915.
To rude words deaf ears.1916.
To rule the mountains is to rule the river.1917.
To scare a bird is not the way to catch it.1918.
To see it rain is better than to be in it.1919.
To squeeze an eel too hard is the way to lose it.1920.
To take the rat by the tail.