Quotes By Jean De La Fontaine

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

One returns to the place one came from.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

But the shortest works are always the best.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.