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Jean de La Fontaine

Quote of Jean de La Fontaine - Sadness flies away on the wings...


Biography - Jean de La Fontaine:

French poet.
Born: 1621 - Died: 1695
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.


Note 

Note



Fables - The Young Widow (La Jeune Veuve)


Quote source: Fables



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Sur les ailes du Temps, la tristesse s'envole.

German
Mit den Flügeln der Zeit fliegt die Traurigkeit davon.




See also 

See also...



Time is a great master; it regulates things well.

Happy is he who can forget what cannot be anymore changed.

Time softens everything.




Quotes for: time


Quotes

Quotes about time:


In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.





Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.





Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus / 





What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.











Quotes for: wings


Quotes

Quotes for: wings


If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.





I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.





Man, too, has wings, he has imagination.





Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.





Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.





Fear: Gives one wings.











Quotes

Quotes for: Sadness


Go, nothing is better for the soul
Than to dispel some sadness from a soul!






I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.





A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.





The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.





Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.





Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.







Quotes

Jean de La Fontaine also said...


Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





In every undertaking we must keep the outcome in mind.





Ingratitude is the mother of all vice.





Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.





Patience and time do more than strength or passion.





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












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