French Proverb Famous Quotes
No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
To understand all is to forgive all.
He who survives will see the outcome.
Life is an onion and one peels it crying.
Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.
"When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach."
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
He is rich who owes nothing.
He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
Everyone thinks his own burden heavy.
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
Ready money works great cures.
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.
Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
"Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want."
There is no flying without wings.
When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.
A father is a banker provided by nature.
With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.
A white wall is the fool's paper.
Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.
"Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks. (tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse)"
French Proverb Quotations
"What a pity that so many people rather believe their doubts And doubt their beliefs... Why don't we just decide to have no doubts, And believe your beliefs Fear and worry is just the mis-use of the creative powers We originally got to dream."
Unknown
"No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will."
Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes I think we'd be better off blind.
Lily Yeamans
"The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition."
Israel Zangwill
We are what we repeatedly do.
Aristotle
Ideas won't keep something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead
A lie told often enough becomes truth.
Lenin
He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.
English Proverb
"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey."
Kristen Ashley Roth