Quotes by Jean de La Fontaine

“Patience and time do more than force and rage.””

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.””

“To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.””

“Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.””

“Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.””

“Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.””

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

“There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:Not only is he prompt to lend”

“Apprenez que tout flatteurVit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute :Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute.””

“Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.””

“The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.””

“In everything one must consider the end.””

“I don't believe that Nature's powersHave tied her hands or pinioned ours,By marking on the heavenly vaultOur fate without mistake or fault.That fate depends on conjunctionsOf places, persons, times, and tracks,And not on the functionsOf more or less of quacks.””