("Neither for May, nor for warmest May,
Your winter coat should you take away.")
"Se Febraro non febregia
Mars marsegia."
("If February be not cold
March will pierce the young and old.")
"Non est tout or che relus," is our old friend, "All is not gold that glitters."
There is a Nizard proverb very neatly put. "Experience keeps a school: and it is the only one where thoughtless men will learn."
Another saying expresses an all too common fate in a few words: "A dou mau de la cabro de Moussu Sequin, que se bategue touto la niue 'me lou loup, e piei lou matin, lou loup la manje."
("He had the bad fortune of Monsieur Sequin's goat, which fought all night with the wolf, and then the wolf eat him in the morning.")