The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In short, Luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA My customers are successful workingwomen.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the c...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and sa...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individu...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is m...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have ...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I don't really know how to do casual clothes.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Every season I am inspired by women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, get...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
OSCAR DE LA HOYA You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of bein...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.
[Fr., Patience et longueur de te...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is
worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si da...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD His brow is seamed with line and scar;
His cheek is red and dark as wine;
The fires as of ...
WALTER DE LA MARE The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been t...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE