Famous Verses
Florian wrote a collection of fables. From these fables several expressions have passed into colloquial French:
- Pour vivre heureux, vivons cachés: "In order to live happily, live hidden"
- Chacun son métier, les vaches seront bien gardées: "To each his occupation, and the cows will be well guarded."
- Rira bien qui rira le dernier: "He who laughs last laughs best."
The expression éclairer la lanterne ("light the lantern") is also drawn from Florian's fables.
Read more about this topic: Jean-Pierre Claris De Florian
Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or verses:
“Up through the lubber crust of Wales
I rocketed to astonish
The flashing needle rock of squatters,
The criers of Shabby and Shorten,
The famous stitch droppers.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)