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:
“That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep forever. Never will I wake these echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again ...”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Some may have blamed you that you took away
The verses that could move them on the day
When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind
With lightning, you went from me....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)