Mellin de Saint-Gelais



Mellin de Saint-Gelais (ca. 1490 – October 1558) was a French writer of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France.

Quotes

 * It's better to act and to regret / Than to regret not to have acted
 * Original: Mieux vaut faire, et se repentir / Que se repentir, et rien faire
 * Source: Quatrains, LXXVIII


 * No bird can ever fly / like a heart can rise so high
 * Original: Il n'est oiseau qui sût voler / Si haut comme un coeur peut aller
 * Source: Quatrains, LXXXIV 


 * A friendship that can be ended / didn't ever start
 * Original: Amitié qui se peut finir / Ne fut jamais bien commencée
 * Source: Oeuvres poétiques


 * So you must always remember / that time ends the beauty
 * Original: Ainsi vous doit-il souvenir / Que le temps finit la beauté
 * Source: Oeuvres poétiques