Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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
Spoils
Spoil
Author
Quand
Wants
Bien
Everything
Auteur
Much
Auteurs
Good
Tout
Faire
More quotes by Jean de La Fontaine
Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
Jean de La Fontaine
We are never content with our lot.
Jean de La Fontaine
Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
Jean de La Fontaine
Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
Jean de La Fontaine
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
Jean de La Fontaine
Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean de La Fontaine
The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
Jean de La Fontaine
We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
Jean de La Fontaine
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
Jean de La Fontaine
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
Jean de La Fontaine
Cats know not how to pardon.
Jean de La Fontaine
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
Jean de La Fontaine
As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Jean de La Fontaine
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
