A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
法国谚语
French Proverbs
It is always the impossible that happens.
发生的事总是不可能的。
If wishes would bide, beggars would ride.
如果愿望能实现，乞丐就会发财。
Where wine appears the doctor disappears.
哪里有酒，哪里就没有医生。
By candle-light a goat looks like a lady.
在烛光下，山羊看起来像一位女士。
Buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets.
买大炮，卖号角。
Good repute is better than a golden belt.
名誉胜于金腰带。
One must lose a minnow to catch a salmon.
要钓到一条大马哈鱼，必须先失去一条小鱼。
He who spits in the air pollutes himself.
随地吐痰会污染自己。
Only he who does nothing makes a mistake.
只有无所事事的人才会犯错误。
Nothing grows old sooner than a kindness.
没有什么比善良更容易变老的了。
He who sees leather cut asks for a thong.
看到皮面的人要一条丁字裤。
A civil question deserves a civil answer.
一个文明的问题应该有一个文明的答案。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A man who has but one eye must take good care of it.
只有一只眼睛的人必须好好照料它。
He who is judge between two friends, loses one of them.
在两个朋友之间评断是非的人，会失去其中一个朋友。
A gaunt brute bites sore.
一只瘦骨嶙峋的野兽咬得很痛。
Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
希望是灵魂清醒时的梦想。
Fish must swim three times: once in the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
鱼必须游三次:一次在水里，第二次在酱汁里，第三次在葡萄酒里。
Do not let grass grow on the path of friendship.
不要让友谊的路上长出青草。