Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Fontaine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 8, 1621 - April 13, 1695

Topics

FearHappyLaughDieMustBefore

City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile.

Robert Gottlieb

SmileGreatValueCityTradition

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

Amos Oz

LiveWorldUnknownOutsideOutFar

Nutrition is 150 per cent of the bodybuilding formula. It's that important.

Ronnie Coleman

ImportantNutritionBodybuildingCent

The first videos I uploaded on my own personal channel were videos of dogs.

Michelle Phan

PersonalMy OwnFirstDogsOwnWere

Even after they fired me, called me a bigot and publicly advised me to only share my thoughts with a psychiatrist, I did not call for defunding NPR. I am a journalist, and NPR is an important platform for journalism.

Juan Williams

I AmMeThoughtsJournalismShare

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

Joshua Chamberlain

I AmWritingYouKnowCircumstances

One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance.

Jared Polis

EducationHelpLegislativeSuccessful

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

Dinaw Mengestu

AmericanImmigrantWriterNeeds

My mother stayed at home and raised me and my closest sister, and that meant that the American Dream and what he was doing on television as a character and behind the scenes as a producer was producing for us at home, so it is your life.

Cody Rhodes

LifeMotherHomeCharacterSister

I think what Ripple is doing is not just, 'Hey, how do we enable banks' - it's a broader effort in how can you enable an Internet of Things and connected devices that are economic actors to pass a couple pennies.

Brad Garlinghouse

EffortThinkInternetDoingRipple

Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred.

Winnie Byanyima

ChangeConflictNationalismHatred

A token is not a short term carrot, nor a stick for that matter. Just having a token doesn't mean that you have a working business model attached with it.

William Mougayar

BusinessShortYouMatterMeanJust

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