Jean de La Fontaine Famous Quotes
Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
"Help thyself, and God will help thee."
The opinion of the strongest is always the best.
By the work one knows the workmen.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
In everything one must consider the end.
No path of flowers leads to glory.
We heed no instincts but our own.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
"Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value."
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend A wise enemy is worth more.
Jean de La Fontaine Quotations
"If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness."
JulieJeanneEleonore de Lespinasse
"A man's work is his dilemma his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else's world."
Melvin Maddocks
"Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty."
Rose Elizabeth Bird
"There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell. (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)"
Richard Milhous Nixon
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish proverb
"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."
George MacDonald
"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Ezra Pound
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado."
Menander