45 Quotes by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.