PAUL ELUARD AND BENJAMIN PE´ RET

From 152 Proverbs Mis au Gouˆt du Jour

One good mistress deserves another.
Elephants are contagious.
A crab, by any other name, would not forget the sea.
Spare the cradle and spoil the child.
I came, I sat, I departed.
The further the urn the longer the beard.
Never sew an animal.
He who bestirs himself is lost.
Beat your mother while she’s young.
When the reason is away, the smiles will play.
A little more than green and less than blond.
Cold meat lights no fire.
A shadow is a shadow all the same.
Grasp the eye by the monocle.
Who hears but me hears all.
A corset in July is worth a horde of rats.
Make two o’clock with one clock.
Better to die of love than to love without regret.
Breaking two stones with one mosquito.