Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
Jean de La Fontaine
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Race
Start
Without
Dart
Swiftness
Timely
Winning
More quotes by Jean de La Fontaine
The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
Jean de La Fontaine
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Jean de La Fontaine
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
Jean de La Fontaine
Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
Jean de La Fontaine
Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
Jean de La Fontaine
One often has need of one inferior to himself.
Jean de La Fontaine
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
Jean de La Fontaine
The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
Jean de La Fontaine
The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
Jean de La Fontaine
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
Jean de La Fontaine
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
Jean de La Fontaine
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.
Jean de La Fontaine
In this world we must help one another.
Jean de La Fontaine
We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
Jean de La Fontaine
The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Diversity, that is my motto.
Jean de La Fontaine
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
Jean de La Fontaine
Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
Jean de La Fontaine
