Belgian Proverb Famous Quotes
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb Quotations
Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide)
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
Aldous Huxley
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
Dorothy Parker
"The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us."
William Shakespeare
"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it."
Samuel Johnson
"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
Michel de Montaigne
"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."
Edward Albee
Actions lie louder than words.
Carolyn Wells
"The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched."
Jo Coudert
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson