Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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.
Quotes
[edit]- Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
- Reported in Charles Noel Douglas (ed.) Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical, rev. ed. (New York: Halcyon House, 1940) p. 13
- Compare: The Duchess of Newcastle, Orations (1668) p. 224
- Reported in Charles Noel Douglas (ed.) Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical, rev. ed. (New York: Halcyon House, 1940) p. 13
A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
[edit]- Edited by J. de Finod, New York: D. Appleton and Co
- The flavour of detached thoughts depends upon the conciseness of their expression: for thoughts are grains of sugar, or of salt, that must be melted in a drop of water.
- p. 7
- For one Orpheus who went to Hell to seek his wife, how many widowers who would not even go to Paradise to find theirs!
- p. 15
- What we gain by experience is not worth what we lose in illusion.
- p. 17
- We salute more willingly an acquaintance in a carriage than a friend on foot.
- p. 27
- We like to give in the sunlight, and to receive in the dark.
- p. 35
- Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age: one is lost in them, the other hidden.
- p. 36
- A child becomes for his parents, according to the education he receives, a blessing or a chastisement.
- p. 43
- Promises retain men better than services. For them, hope is a chain, and gratitude a thread.
- p. 58
- Let us respect white hair — especially our own.
- p. 65
- Happiness is the shadow of man: remembrance of it follows him; hope of it precedes him.
- p. 72
- We know the value of a fortune when we have gained it, and that of a friend when we have lost it.
- p. 78
- To protect one's self against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbour in the tempest; but with a bad woman, it proves a tempest in the harbour.
- p. 96
- Love for old men is sun on the snow: it dazzles more than it warms them.
- p. 188
External links
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