French proverbs

I never saw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as one that settled be.

People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.

Remember that everyone you ever meet is sure to fear something, to love something, and to have lost something.

Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

A hundred years a banner, a hundred years a barrow. [Signifying the changeful fortunes of great feudal families.]

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

Fish must swim three times: once in the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.

See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day.

He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.

Write injuries in dust, But kindnesses in marble. [Fr., Eerivez les injures sue le sable, Mais les bienfaits sur le marbre.]

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