This French proverb is evidence of why foreigners need a thick skin to live in France. Qui aime bien, châtie bien - roughly pronounced key ehm be-ahn shah-tee bee-ahn - translates as ‘who loves well, ...
A PROVERB, says the Oxford Dictionary, is ‘a short pithy saying in common and recognized use; a concise sentence, often metaphorical or alliterative in form, which is held to express some truth ...