187 Quotes by Jean de La Fontaine

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]

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

O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu. [Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.