Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Famous Quotes
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotations
"Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Lord Thomas Dewar
We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike."
Alexander Hamilton
"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself."
John Ruskin
"If you ever go temporarily insane, don't shoot somebody, like a lot of people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because you'd really be surprised."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive-you are leaking."
Fran Lebowitz
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Johann von Schiller
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Thomas Jefferson
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
Saint Bernard