28 Quotes by Jean Bruyere

Let us not overstrain our talents, for if we do we shall do nothing with grace; a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman

Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty

It is a great misfortune to have the wit to speak, but not the sense when to remain silent.

We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it

There is nothing of which men are so fond, and withal so careless, as life

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity