Gustave Flaubert Famous Quotes
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
"Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth."
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
Gustave Flaubert Quotations
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
Max Lerner
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools."
Marshall McLuhan
The true recipe for a miserable existence is to quarrel with Providence.
James Waddell Alexander II
I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
Pat Conroy
"One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear."
Leone Levi
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
English Proverb
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Dr. Evil The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it."
Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
"Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold."
Ecclesiasticus
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
W Somerset Maugham