Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Jean de La Fontaine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ThoughtLuxurySheFoolishFortune

Perspective has allowed me to rekindle my love of music.

Michael Buble

LoveMusicPerspectiveMeRekindle

I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

Steve Toltz

LightEmpathyPeopleThinkYouKnow

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

Troian Bellisario

GoodSchoolNot Good EnoughEnough

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

Townsend Harris

BrokenWarLongOutJapanBeen

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Russell Simmons

KnowledgePovertyMustChallenged

My favourite TV show is... 'Downton Abbey.' The characters are wonderful, and the style is created so beautifully on screen. Everything from the table settings to the linen seem perfect to me. While I'm watching it, I'm in a totally different world.

Mary Berry

StyleMeWorldPerfectTableSeem

The beginning of my acting career was in London, England.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

BeginningCareerActingLondon

I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don't take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. 'Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read 'Little House on the Prairie' when he was in third grade.

Jon Scieszka

SonExperienceReadingThinkParent

I have no problem with people having plastic surgery. But I do find it bizarre we think it's OK for women to have a foreign body put into them just for the sake of looking like Pamela Anderson.

Davinia Taylor

WomenPeopleLookingThinkProblem

I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She put the gum in her mouth, bit down, and there was a shard of metal in it!

Cory Michael Smith

DayBrotherMomDoctorMouthEarly

There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.

Brett Kavanaugh

PersuasiveMeaningfulBetweenRifles

'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.

Brie Larson

TimeShortBudgetTryingWorthSame

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