French proverbs

Io get what we want, we must accept some things we don't want. No rose without a thorn.

He is like the gardener's dog, who don't eat cabbage and will let no one else eat them.

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can be cooked together but they will never be tender.

It is in vain for a man to rise early who has the repute of lying in bed all the morning.

When you can't find peace within yourself, there is no use looking for it somewhere else.

Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.

A lawyer needs three bags: one full of papers, one full of money, and one full of patience.

He who waits for another man's trencher often dines in imagination (or with Duke Humphrey).

To wash an ass's head is but loss of time and soap. (To reprove a fool is but lost labour.)

Nothing so bold as a miller's shirt (because it takes a thief by the throat every morning).

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