Jean de La Fontaine Men Quotations

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.