Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENo favor can win gratitude from a cat.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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