“Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.”
“Life is half spent before one knows what it is.”
“He who is near the Church is often far from God.”
“Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.”
“To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.”
“Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.”
“Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.”
“More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.”
“Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.”
“He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.”
“The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.”
“The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.”
“There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.”
“There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.”
“People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.”
“No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.”
“People count the faults of those who keep them waiting.”
“We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.”
“Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.”
“If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.”
“Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.”
“Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.”
“Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.”
“He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.”
“Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)”
“When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.”
“There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.”
“When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.”
“One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.”
“Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.”