Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras,De juger les gens sur la mine.

Jean de La Fontaine

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Me
  • Hard
  • New York

• It's much easier to work with an unknown.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Work
  • Unknown
  • Much

• Who you know, 10 albums later, get better than he's ever been before? It's hard. To come from all this huge success like a 'What's Love,' and a 'Lean Back,' then take it back to the street with 'The Darkside.'

  

  Fat Joe
  • Success
  • Know
  • Like

• Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Country
  • Bad

• I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Found
  • Earn

• Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Try
  • Strength

• I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Real
  • Trying

• All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Character
  • Best
  • Facts

• Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • Up
  • Great
  • Strong

• And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Joy

• I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • Always
  • Something

• For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Change
  • Always
  • Now

• A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Whole
  • Useful
  • Lemon

• I have very little regard for consensus if it blinds you to the truth.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Truth

• ...nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Life
  • Important
  • Joy

• The flower of olden sanctities.

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Flower

• The holidays are only overwhelming because it's crunch time. It's like everyone trying to get last-minute things in before the New Year starts.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

  

  Jaron Lanier
  • People
  • Great

• If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Chance
  • Same
  • Leader

• In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.

  

  Bee Wilson
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Food

• What's that darkness over there?" Leven asked. "It's not good." Clover said. "Then what is it?" 'Bad," Clover suggested, sounding as though he wasn't all that impressed with Leven's level of knowledge. "I understand opposites," Leven said, frustrated.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Knowledge

• Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras,De juger les gens sur la mine.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine