Jean Richepin quotes

  • An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

  • A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

  • Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

  • Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.

  • Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.

  • Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.

  • If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster

  • While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

  • You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

  • All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.