2214 French Proverbs / Page 50
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In a conclave many go in as a pope but come back out as the cardinal they were when they went in.982.
In a good family the husband is deaf and the wife blind.983.
In borrowing an angel, in repaying a devil.984.
In calm water every ship has a good captain.985.
In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains.986.
In love and war don't seek counsel.987.
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.988.
In marriage cheat who can.989.
In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?990.
In the end it will be known who ate the bacon.991.
In the end things will mend.992.
In the fiddler's house every one is a dancer.993.
In the forehead and the eye The lecture of the mind doth lie.994.
In the kingdom of the blind men, those who are blessed with one eye are kings.995.
In the tail lies the venom.996.
In too much disputing truth is lost.997.
In your own company no one is boss.998.
In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears.999.
Incense intoxicates and every one wishes for it.1000.
Indecision is the key to flexibility.