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Biography - Jacques Prévert:

French poet and screenwriter.
Born: 1900 - Died: 1977
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun
Jacques Prévert


You must be very polite to the Earth And to the sun


Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Il faut aussi être très poli avec la terre
Et avec le soleil
Jacques Prévert

German
Man soll zu der Erde sehr höflich sein
Und zu der Sonne
Jacques Prévert



See also 

See also...





Quotes for: earth


Quotes

Quotes about earth:


We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
 / 





There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 





One can be a hero without ravaging the earth.
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux / 





Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Hamatreya / 





For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.
Xenophanes / 





Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
Hans Jonas - The Imperative of Responsibility / 






All about earth...




Quotes for: sun


Quotes

Quotes for: sun


The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus of Ephesus - Fragments / 





It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.
Arthur Rimbaud - L'Éternité / 





What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.
Victor Hugo / 





Education is another sun to those who are educated.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 





Neither the sun nor death can be looked at without winking.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 






All sun quotes...




Quotes

Quotes for: Politeness


Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
Jules Renard / 





Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Gustave Flaubert





Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer





The artist can wish for nothing better than blunt friends and polite enemies.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 





Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Honore de Balzac / 






Quotes

Jacques Prévert also said...


Later it will be too late. Our life is now.
Jacques Prévert / 





We should try to be happy, just to set an example.
Jacques Prévert / 





Poetry, it's one of the most pretty nicknames we give to life.
Jacques Prévert / 







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