French proverbs

The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.

Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies. [Fr., Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse.]

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

When a cow is lost it is something to recover its tail, were it only to make a handle for one's door.

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

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

To whom do you offer your shells for sale? To people who come from Saint Michel (where shells abound).

A glaring sunny morning, a woman that talks Latin, and a child reared on wine, never come to a good end.

Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a Frenchman to accept the challenge.

If you want to love your household as much as your bread then you will have to knead your wife like dough.

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