Zitate und Sprüche von Jean de la Fontaine

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Quagmire: "You got to help me. I'm looking for a little boy with red overalls and a yellow shirt."
French Man: "You are looking to buy or to rent?"
Quagmire: "What? No! God! How is Paris considered a classy city?"
French Man: "The buildings are beautiful, the people are trash."

Do you realize this city is laid out in circles? Like they deliberately designed it to confuse us.

Paris seems like a big city, but it's really just a small town.

Of course, I love Paris. And the food is so delicious. The fashion, so chic. The lights, so magical. But the people, so mean.

It's Paris. Everyone's serious about dinner.

You haven't done Paris right until you've had at least one wildly inappropriate affair.

What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.

The Parisian has his amus*ments as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

You are going to lose people in your life.
And I realize that no matter how much you spent with them,
or how much you appreciated them and told them so,
it will never seem like it was enough.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

Castle: "Do I look like a killer to you?"
Beckett: "Yes. You kill my patience."

Don't exploit an advantage just because it emerges; wait until the optimal moment, then strike.

Patience is what separates good hunters from dead ones.

The only time that we are allowed to look down upon others: when we are offering to help them up.

I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.

I only succeed when I help others succeed.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.