La Bruyere Famous Quotes
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us.
"Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them."
"That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect."
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
"No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less."
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life."
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
La Bruyere Quotations
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
Kahlil Gibran
"Goodbye, and hello, as always."
Roger Zelazny
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
Pliny the Younger
What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Jim Beggs
"You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in, 'That world is gone.'"
Peggy Noonan
I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive Office Building)
Richard Milhous Nixon
"Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy."
Marguerite de Valois
"The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after."
Alexander Pope
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies