Famous quotes containing the words french proverb. and/or french:
“There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.”
—French proverb.
“An old French sentence says, “God works in moments,”M”En peu d’heure Dieu labeure.” We ask for long life, but ‘t is deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)