Andr Gide Famous Quotes
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- because they were too obvious.
"Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else."
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
"In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future."
"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
"The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered."
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
"Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.
Andr Gide Quotations
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
"Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers."
William Shakespeare
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making."
John Milton
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
James Boswell
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
Henry Havelock Ellis
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf
"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way."
Edgar Albert Guest
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann von Goethe