Jean de la Bruyere Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.”

“Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.”

“One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.”

“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.”

“One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.”

“To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.”

“They that have lived a single day have lived an age.”

“There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.”

“He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.”

“Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.”