French Proverbs

• There are two great pleasures in gambling: winning and losing.
• Hatred watches while friendship sleeps.
• Laziness is often mistaken for patience.
• Love teaches even asses to dance.
• Autant de marriages, autant ménages.

(As many as there are marriages, so many living arrangements.

• The Maxims of men disclose their hearts.
• Le mauvais gout mene au crime. (Poor taste leads to crime.)

- quoted by A Conan Doyle in The Sign of Four

• When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.
• No rose without a thorn.