2214 French Proverbs / Page 86
1701.
The leaves fall before the tree dies.1702.
The less one thinks, the more one speaks.1703.
The list is worse than the cloth.1704.
The listener makes the backbiter.1705.
The little alms are the good alms.1706.
The long awaited Easter feast is over in one day.1707.
The longer the way, the more tired the man.1708.
The love that you die from is too big.1709.
The man has neither sense nor reason who leaves a young wife at home.1710.
The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.1711.
The maxims of men disclose their hearts.1712.
The meaning is best known to the speaker.1713.
The merchant that loses cannot laugh.1714.
The merchant who gains not, loseth.1715.
The mill does not grind with water that is past.1716.
The miser and the pig are of no use till dead.1717.
The money paid, the workman's arm is broken.1718.
The monk responds as the abbot chants.1719.
The monk responds to the abbot's chants.1720.
The monk that begs for God's sake begs for two.