Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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