Antoine De SaintExupery Famous Quotes
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."
"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give."
"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."
"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."
"The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us."
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
"All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You--you alone have the stars as no one else has them"
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it."
"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
He who would travel happily must travel light.
"One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born."
"If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists."
Antoine De SaintExupery Quotations
"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."
Anthony Burgess
"We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same."
Anne Frank
Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.
Henry Louis Mencken
Praise the bridge that carried you over.
George Colman
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.
Louis Johannot
"As they use to say, spick and span new."
Miguel de Cervantes
"Good, better, best never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best."
Anon
"And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people."
Leo Tolstoy
"I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers."
D H Lawrence
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
Van Wyck Brooks