2214 French Proverbs / Page 22
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Big winds, small showers.422.
Borrows must not be choosers.423.
Bread and wine start a banquet.424.
Bring up a raven, and he will peck out your eyes.425.
Build a golden bridge for the fleeing enemy.426.
Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen.427.
But for all that the honest man has not got his purse.428.
But may not truth in laughing guise be dressed?429.
Buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets.430.
By beating love decays.431.
By biting and scratching cats and dogs come together.432.
By candle-light a goat looks like a lady.433.
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.434.
By dint of going wrong all will come right.435.
By night all cats are grey.436.
By telling our woes we often assuage them.437.
By working in the smithy one becomes a smith.438.
By writing we learn to write.439.
Cabbage for cabbage.440.
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.