Isaac de Benserade



Isaac de Benserade (baptized November 5, 1613 – October 10, 1691) was a French poet.

Quotes

 * Théâtre des ris et des pleurs Lit! où je nais, et où je meurs, Tu nous fais voir comment voisins Sont nos plaisirs et chagrins.
 * In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And, born in bed, in bed we die. The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe.
 * Translated by Samuel Johnson, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).