Fastidious Quote by Jean de La Fontaine Download Open image “The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.” — Jean de La Fontaine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fastidious Unfortunate
Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Oh you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you many learn piety and righteousness.… — Quran Copy Share Image
Once you are sincere in your fast, you have a sensitivity to the hurt and pain of others who are poor, who are not… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Fasting deals with the two great barriers to the Holy Spirit that are erected by man's carnal nature. These are the stubborn self-will of… — Derek Prince Copy Share Image
In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select. — E. Merrill Root Copy Share Image
Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at. — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
What kind of man reads Playboy? He is fastidious about his appearance, his home and his possessions. He wants as much sex as possible… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again? — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
