Jean Petit Quotes & Sayings

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

At your tongue every few minutes." "I will not slow you down. I am a good enough rider." "I will not be stopping at boardinghouses with warm beds and plates of hot grub on the table. It will be traveling fast and eating light. What little sleeping is done will take place on the ground." "I have slept out at night. Papa took me and Little Frank coon hunting last summer on the Petit Jean." "Coon hunting?" "We were out in the woods all night. We sat around a big fire and Yarnell told ghost stories. We had a good time." "Blast coon hunting! This ain't no coon hunt, it don't come in forty miles of being a coon hunt!" "It is the same idea as a coon hunt. You are just trying to make your — Charles Portis

Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Without big words, how could many people say small things? — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep! — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

No woman dares express all she thinks. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Rage is a short-lived fury. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Age whitens hairs, but not sin. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology ... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social! — Jean Baudrillard

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself. — Laurell K. Hamilton

There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water! — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little? — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn