187 Quotes by Jean de La Fontaine

Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

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

To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.

Luck's always to blame.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.