From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.
All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.