Author of quotes: Charles de Coster

You are mortal - therefore born to endure all kinds of baseness.

Oh, those women! How curious and how chatty - their words flow like water, especially among the elderly - the young are not up to it: they are busy with matters of the heart.

The Almighty will save you.

He who sows the rye of temptation will reap the ergot of cuckolding.

Whoever decides to bake bread early in the morning sifts the flour at night.

- A revealed secret.

The sobbing of a man is like the crying of a lion.

In the struggle against the peoples, sovereigns consider it their royal duty to unite.

Sons whip whips more painfully on the father's back than any other.

May always flies to the ground as rainbow-colored as a peacock, fragrant as a bouquet of flowers, and at his appearance the nightingales sing in the gardens.

How dear she is to me!

He who torments others does not know peace himself.

Cunning people use other people's swarms.

If a person has a lean face since childhood, then this is a bad sign: what will happen to him later?