Colette Famous Quotes
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
We only do well the things we like doing.
"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."
"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
"There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
Colette Quotations
"O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo"
William Shakespeare
The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.
Ira Erwin
"The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung."
Phillips Brooks
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Roosevelt Eleanor
"For this is Wisdom to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go"
Laurence Hope
"In the 20th century, specialisation has become the counterfeit of brilliance."
Richard Gordon
"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine."
Fritz Perls
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
Bertrand Russell
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
Martin Luther