The maxims of men disclose their hearts. – French Proverb
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. – French Proverb
The maxims of men disclose their hearts. – French Proverb
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. – French Proverb
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. – French Proverb
People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. – French Proverb
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,