• No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.

• Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

• Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

• To understand all is to forgive all.

• He who survives will see the outcome.

• Life is an onion and one peels it crying.

• Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.

• When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.

• There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

• He is rich who owes nothing.

• He that does not ask will never get a bargain.

• Everyone thinks his own burden heavy.

• If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

• Ready money works great cures.

• One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

• What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.

• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

• We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.

• Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.

• Set a thief to catch a thief.

• Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.

• There is no flying without wings.

• When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.

• A father is a banker provided by nature.

• With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.

• A white wall is the fool's paper.

• Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

• Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks. (tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse)