2214 French Proverbs / Page 62
1221.
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.1222.
Never put your finger between the tree and the bark.1223.
Never say, Fountain, I will not drink of thy water.1224.
Never seemed prison fair, or mistress foul.1225.
Never sell the bearskin till you have killed the bear.1226.
Never send a boy to do a man's job.1227.
Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.1228.
Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.1229.
Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.1230.
Never trust a woman who mentions her virtue.1231.
New lords, new laws.1232.
Night has no friend.1233.
Night is the mother of councils.1234.
Nine tailors make a man.1235.
Nip sin in the bud.1236.
Nip the briar in the bud.1237.
No clock is more regular than the belly.1238.
No day so long but has its evening.1239.
No dish pleases all palates alike.1240.
No feast like a miser's.