French Author Quotes

Harvest, oh! harvest your hour While life is abloom with youth! For age with bitter ruth Will fade your beauty's flower.

Pierre de Ronsard
Pierre de Ronsard
I beg to advise you of the following facts of which I happen to be the equally impartial and horrified witness.

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

Here is wisdom: to love wine, beauty and the divine Spring. That is enough, the rest is worthless.

Say, boys! if you give me just another whiskey I'll be glad, And I'll draw right here a picture of the face that drove me mad. Give me that piece of chalk with which you mark the baseball score, You shall see the lovely Madeleine upon the bar-room floor.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

When one knows the tremendous strength of their roots, and the arid fraternity among them, their conventional exotic image fades away.... In this place of acceptance and denial, this line of trees contains the essentials of wisdom: it teaches moderation and at the same time inspires audacity.

Tis late; the astronomer in his lonely height Exploring all the dark, descries from far Orbs that like distant isles of splendor are.

Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone....

Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse
When liberty, this austere goddess,
Comes down to console people on earth;
That she finds them seated, in their heavy troubles,
On a ground cracked a thousand and four hundred years ago,
Her work which everywhere encounters a rebellious ground
Is very laborious before emerging beautiful