2214 French Proverbs / Page 79
1561.
Tell a woman once she is beautiful and the devil will repeat it ten times.1562.
Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you who you are.1563.
Tell me whom you frequent, and I will tell you who you are.1564.
That brings water to the mill.1565.
That day is lost on which one has not laughed.1566.
That is done soon enough which is well done.1567.
That often happens in a day which does not happen in a hundred years.1568.
That which proves too much, proves nothing.1569.
The abbey does not fail for want on one monk.1570.
The absent are always in the wrong.1571.
The arguments of the strongest have always the most weight.1572.
The art is to eat it with taste.1573.
The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.1574.
The ass that is common property is always the worst saddled.1575.
The attack tames the beast.1576.
The bad man thinks that everybody looks like him.1577.
The bagpipe never utters a work till its belly is full.1578.
The balance in doing its office knows neither gold nor lead.1579.
The ball always looks for the best player.1580.
The beadle of the parish is always of the vicar's opinion.