About This Quote

About Jacques Delille

Jacques Delille. Jacques Delille was a French poet who came to national prominence with his translation of Virgil’s Georgics and made an international reputation with his didactic poem on gardening. He barely survived the slaughter of the French Revolution and lived for some years outside France, including three years in England. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Family — The ties of kinship, parenting, and unconditional love
  • Friendship — Celebrating the bonds of loyalty, trust, and companionship

More quotes by Jacques Delille

“Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.”
— Jacques Delille
Friends Parents Choice

“Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends.”
— Jacques Delille
friend

“To hope is to enjoy.”
— Jacques Delille
hope

“Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends.”
— Jacques Delille
friend

“Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis.”
— Jacques Delille

“J'aime à réver, mais ne veux pasQu'à coups d'épingle on me réveille.”
— Jacques Delille
View all quotes by Jacques Delille →

Related Quotes

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”
— Gordon B. Hinckley
family inspirational work

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
family happiness inspirational love

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”
— Deb Caletti
family friends hugs life

“What's meant to be will always find a way”
— Trisha Yearwood
fate inspiration love

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
fate love people

“Maybe there isnt such a thing as fate. Maybe its just the opportunities were given, and what we do with them. Im beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances dont just happen. We have to make...”
— Marissa Meyer, Cress
fate love we-make-our-own-paths

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
friendship lack-of-friendship lack-of-love love

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
friendship love

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson
friendship love