2214 French Proverbs / Page 88
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The old monkey gets the apple.1742.
The one with a running nose always wants to blow someone else's.1743.
The one-eyed are kings in the land of the blind.1744.
The only real way someone can stop criticism is to die.1745.
The only victory over love is flight.1746.
The only way to keep a secret is to say nothing.1747.
The patient one always wins.1748.
The people's voice, God's voice.1749.
The person who does not ask will never get a bargain.1750.
The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.1751.
The pitcher goes often to the well and gets broken at last.1752.
The pleasure of love lasts but a moment, The pain of love lasts a lifetime.1753.
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.1754.
The problem that has no name--which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities--is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our1755.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.1756.
The rich man has more relations than he knows about.1757.
The richest man carries nothing away with him but a shroud.1758.
The saint who works no cures has few pilgrims to his shrine.1759.
The saint's-day over, farewell the saint.1760.
The same heat that melts wax, bakes clay.