Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.

Without big words, how could many people say small things?

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Rage is a short-lived fury.

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.