Bernard Grasset Famous Quotes
"The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love."
Bernard Grasset Quotations
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
John Dean
"The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions."
Plato
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Frederick Buechner
"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."
Abraham Lincoln
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Samuel Butler
"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."
Max Eastman
"When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'."
Hilaire Belloc
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr