Jean Baptiste Rousseau Famous Quotes
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
Jean Baptiste Rousseau Quotations
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
Charles Caleb Colton
"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
George Gordon Byron
"Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short."
Jeff Melvoin
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
W H Auden
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
John Allston
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea."
Richard Hofstadter
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway