Charles Baudelaire Famous Quotes
Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start."
"It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten."
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
"There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create."
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
Charles Baudelaire Quotations
"The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty."
Alain
"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground."
Malayan Proverb
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
Wystan Hugh Auden
There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing."
George Dana Boardman
"Marty McFly Jesus, George, it's a wonder I was ever born."
Back to the Future
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Dwight D Eisenhower
"Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared."
Jane Porter
"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children"
Marcus Tullius Cicero