Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
-
-
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Nothing weighs more than a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
In short, luck’s always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
I bend but do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Lies and literature have always been friends.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE