Quotes by french authors

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne

Good Marriage Wife Husband Good Marriage Would Would-Be Between Blind Deaf

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Work You People Long Build Immensity Collect Rather Drum Ship Up Tasks Endless Wood Want Them Teach Sea Assign

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom You Been Done

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal

Alone Men Sit Able Miseries Quiet Being Room Derive

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. Coco Chanel

Girl Fabulous Classy Should Things Two

Prejudices are what fools use for reason. Voltaire

Fools Prejudices Use Reason

There are people who have money and people who are rich. Coco Chanel

People Money Rich Who

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne

Memory Wish Nothing Forget Intensely Thing

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Death Silence Sadness Absolute Leads Image

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo

School Prison He Opens Closes Door Who

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine

Life Friendship Setting Increases Setting Sun Sun Shadow Which Evening

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. Joseph Roux

Alone Solitude Isolation

At times I think and at times I am. Paul Valery

Think Am Times

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire

Man Legal Better Innocent Saving Guilty Risk Condemn Than

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Victor Hugo

Age Youth Old Old Age Fifty Forty

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. Joseph Joubert

You Honey Must Go Bees Expect Search

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Napoleon Bonaparte

Obscurity Glory Forever Fleeting

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. Charles de Gaulle

Myself Better Men Find More Know Dogs Get Loving Relatable