Famous Quotes
13 Quotations with Fontenelle.
- 1. Fontenelle: A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only ...
- 2. Fontenelle: A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until ...
- 3. Fontenelle: A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.
- 4. Fontenelle: A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the p ...
- 5. Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle: A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
- 6. Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle: A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only ...
- 7. Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle: Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
- 8. Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle: If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
- 9. Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle: If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to op ...
- 10. Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle: It is the passions that do and undo everything.
- 11. Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle: There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
- 12. Oliver Goldsmith: There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by ...
- 13. Bernard de Fontenelle: A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.