Felix G Rohatyn Famous Quotes



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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Honore de Balzac

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."
Leo Buscaglia

"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."
Kahlil Gibran

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
Mark Twain

"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."
Henry David Thoreau

"Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one."
Robert Brault

"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere."
Jawaharlal Nehru

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
Blaise Pascal

In youth we learn in age we understand.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it for when we fail our pride supports us when we succeed, it betrays us."
Charles Caleb Colton