A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
法国谚语
French Proverbs
A galled horse does not care to be curried.
受了伤的马不愿吃咖喱。
A surgeon should be young, a physician old.
外科医生应年轻，内科医生应年老。
Never seemed prison fair, or mistress foul.
监狱从来都不公平，情妇也从来都不肮脏。
He who grasps at too much loses everything.
贪多必失。
One is rated by others as he rates himself.
一个人对自己的评价是别人对他的评价。
You never get clean flour from a coal sack.
你永远无法从煤袋里得到干净的面粉。
It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
聪明是好事，但不要表现出来。
What the she-wolf does pleases the he-wolf.
母狼做的事使公狼高兴。
He who is at sea does not direct the winds.
在海上的人不能指挥风。
The clever wife makes her husband an apron.
聪明的妻子给丈夫做了一条围裙。
In borrowing an angel, in repaying a devil.
借天使，还魔鬼。
Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.
只有无所事事的人才不会犯错误。
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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 cow does not know what her tail is worth until she has lost it.
直到失去了尾巴，牛才知道它的尾巴有什么价值。
Do not let grass grow on the path of friendship.
不要让友谊的路上长出青草。
At the king's court every one for himself.
在王宫里，每个人都为自己而战。
Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
希望是灵魂清醒时的梦想。
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。