Happiness is the shadow of man: remembrance of it follows him; hope of it precedes him.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes
1792–1870 Switzerland
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (6 April 1792 – 10 March 1870), also known as John Petit-Senn, was a Swiss novelist, poet, singer, editor and politician.
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Love for old men is sun on the snow: it dazzles more than it warms them.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
We salute more willingly an acquaintance in a carriage than a friend on foot.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
We like to give in the sunlight, and to receive in the dark.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Promises retain men better than services. For them, hope is a chain, and gratitude a thread.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
What we gain by experience is not worth what we lose in illusion.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Let us respect white hair — especially our own.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
We know the value of a fortune when we have gained it, and that of a friend when we have lost it.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
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