Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's…

- Pierre-Jean De Beranger

A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.

- Pierre-Jean De Beranger

When in our days Religion is made a political engine, she exposes herself to having her sacred character forgotten. The most tolerant become intolera…

- Pierre-Jean De Beranger

Our century is a brutal thinker.

- Pierre-Jean De Beranger

Our friends, the enemy.

- Pierre-Jean De Beranger

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

- Pierre-Jean De Beranger

Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled.

- Pierre-Jean De Beranger

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

- Pierre-Jean De Beranger

Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

- Pierre-Jean De Beranger