Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
Je vais t'entretenir de moindres aventures,Te tracer en ces vers de légères peintures;Et si de t'agréer je n'emporte le prix,J'aurai du moins d'honneur de l'avoir entrepris.
Jean de La Fontaine
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
Kacy Catanzaro
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
Walter Cronkite
Be obscure clearly.
E. B. White
I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
Mara Wilson
That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
G. Willow Wilson
For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.
David Harsanyi
If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: 'Why have you grown up such a dull dog, when I gave you such a good start? Why have you spent your time in dusty libraries, catologuing other people's books instead of writing your own? What had become of the Ram, the Bull and the Lion, the example I gave you to emulate? Where above all is the Virgin, with her shining face and curling tresses, whom I entrusted to you'- what should I say?
I should have an answer ready. 'Well, it was you who let me down, and I will tell you how. You flew too near to the sun, and you were scorched. This cindery creature is what you made me.'
To which he might reply: 'But you have had half a century to get over it! Half a century, half the twentieth century, that glorious epoch, that golden age that I bequeathed to you!'
'Has the twentieth century,' I should ask, 'done so much better than I have? When you leave this room, which I admit is dull and cheerless, and take the last bus to your home in the past, if you haven't missed it - ask yourself whether you found everything so radiant as you imagined it. Ask yourself whether it has fulfilled your hopes. You were vanquished, Colston, you were vanquished, and so was your century, your precious century that you hoped so much of.
Leslie Poles Hartley
Believe in your work.
Donald McCaig
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
William Wycherley
I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay not to play a solo.
Darrell Lance Abbott
Je vais t'entretenir de moindres aventures,Te tracer en ces vers de légères peintures;Et si de t'agréer je n'emporte le prix,J'aurai du moins d'honneur de l'avoir entrepris.
Jean de La Fontaine
