73 Quotes by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider’s web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.

It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.