2214 French Proverbs / Page 52
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It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.1022.
It is by forging that one becomes a blacksmith.1023.
It is easier to abstain than to restrain.1024.
It is easier to climb down than up.1025.
It is easier to get away from the back than the bottom.1026.
It is easy to go on foot if you are holding your horse by the rein.1027.
It is folly to gape against an oven.1028.
It is good fishing in troubled waters.1029.
It is good to beat a proud man when he is alone.1030.
It is good to dance on another man's floor.1031.
It is good to have friends in all parts.1032.
It is in vain for a man to rise early who has the repute of lying in bed all the morning.1033.
It is in vain to lean the ox to the water if he is not thirsty.1034.
It is just that the priest should live by the altar.1035.
It is loving too much to die of love.1036.
It is madness for a sheep to talk of peace with a wolf.1037.
It is merry in hall when beards wag all.1038.
It is more difficult for beautiful women to stay chaste.1039.
It is more disgraceful to suspect our friends than to be deceived by them.1040.
It is not enough to have cabbage, one must have something to grease it.