Proverbs 2

Question 0

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Answer 0

Passion is always warmer towards absent lovers

Question 1

The absent party is always to blame.

Answer 1

He who is absent is always in the wrong

Question 2

There is no disputing about tastes.

Answer 2

There is no accounting for tastes

Question 3

After a storm comes a calm

Answer 3

After a storm comes a calm.

Question 4

Les meilleures choses ont une fin

Answer 4

All good things must come to an end

Question 5

Tout vient à celui qui sait attendre.

Answer 5

All things come to those who wait.

Question 6

L’appétit vient en mageant.

Answer 6

Appetite comes with eating

Question 7

It is frequently used to assert the continuity of family caracteristics.

Answer 7

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Question 8

C’est la soupe qui fait le soldat.

Answer 8

An army marches on its stomach.

Question 9

That is better to attack than to receive one.

Answer 9

Attack is the best form of defence.

Question 10

You must not take everything to be true that is told to you.

Answer 10

Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.

Question 11

Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possible.

Answer 11

All’s for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Question 12

Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.

Answer 12

The best is the enemy of the good.

Question 13

it is more blessed to give than to receive.

Answer 13

It is better to give than to receive.

Question 14

Violence begets violence.

Answer 14

Blood will have blood.

Question 15

Youth will be youthfull.

Answer 15

Boys will be boys.

Question 16

Where there is no cat, the rat is king.

Answer 16

When the cat’s away, the mice will play.

Question 17

The wise and experience are not easy fooled.

Answer 17

You cannot catch old bird with chaff.

Question 18

The night obscures all distinguishing features.

Answer 18

All cats are grey in the dark.

Question 19

Strength and weakness

Answer 19

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

Question 20

began with your own domestic affairs.

Answer 20

Charity begins at home.

Question 21

Wrong-doers.

Answer 21

Cheats never prosper.

Question 22

To know the truth about everything, listen to children, idiots and women.

Answer 22

Children and fools tell the truth

Question 23

Manners and politeness

Answer 23

Civility costs nothing.

Politeness cots nothing.

Question 24

Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Answer 24

Clothes make the man.

Question 25

A good conscience providing the softest pillow for a weary head.

Answer 25

A clean conscience is a good pillow.

Question 26

Persistence will achieve a difficult or unlikely objective.

Answer 26

Constant dropping wears away a stone.

Question 27

Not to make or act upon an assumption.

Answer 27

Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.

Question 28

Au royaume des aveugles, le borgne est roi.

Answer 28

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Question 29

Action and consequence.

Answer 29

Crime doesn’t pay

Question 30

It is time enough to cry when you are hurt.

Answer 30

Don’t cry before you are hurt.

Question 31

Patience and impatience

Answer 31

What can’t be cured must be endured

Question 32

Buying and selling.

Answer 32

The customer is always right.

Question 33

Often a declarer reaches a dark point during the early play that precedes his ultimate step toward victory.

Answer 33

The Darkest hour is just before the dawn.