- You’re correct, but the goat is mine.
- He who sleeps cannot catch fish.
- He who leaves and then returns, had a good trip.
- A closed mouth catches neither flies nor food.
- If you own two houses, it is raining in one of them.
- Company drags a man to the scaffold.
- He who lives fast goes straight to his death.
- Hunger drives the wolf from its den.
- Theory dominates practice.
- If a caged bird isn’t singing for love, it’s singing in a rage.
- An open path never seems long.
- A fine rain still soaks you to the bone, but no one takes it seriously.
- What can a cat do if its master is crazy.
- Words have no bones, but can break bones.
- A thin cat and a fat woman are the shame of a household.
— Corsican proverbs