"It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not."

-- Jean de La Fontaine

#Two Quotes #May Quotes #Said Quotes

“Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.”
“On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.”
“The love of her life dissolved into dreams.”
“How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?”

Source : Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.199, A&C Black
“I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.”
“I love the English people - if you don't want to speak, you don't speak. And I'm quite like that sometimes.”
“I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?”

Source : "Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, ch. 2, p. 22, 1964.
“Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it.”

Source : Jens Peter Jacobsen (1917). “Marie Grubbe: A Lady of the Seventeenth Century”

You may also like:

Aesop
Author
Charles Baudelaire
Poet
Charles Perrault
Author
Hans Christian Andersen
Author
Ivan Krylov
Fabulist
Jean Racine
Dramatist
Michel de Montaigne
Writer
Moliere
Playwright
Pierre Corneille
Dramatist