Jacques Bossuet Famous Quotes
"The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are."
Jacques Bossuet Quotations
"The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service."
James A Perkins
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H L Mencken
"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one"
Richard M Devos
"O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies."
Saadi
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
Clive Staples Lewis
"Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
Anon
"If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done."
Unknown
"An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold."
Romanian Proverb
"All things change, nothing perishes."
Ovid