Antoine Rivarol Famous Quotes



"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future."


Antoine Rivarol Quotations






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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Virginia

"Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune."
William Hazlitt

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.
Benjamin Franklin

"Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones."
Albert Einstein

I am sure the grapes are sour.
Aesop

I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson

My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.
Jenna Elfman

"Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."
La Rochefoucauld