Nicolas Boileau Famous Quotes
"The world is full of fools and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass."
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. (A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.)
"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure"
"Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease."
Nicolas Boileau Quotations
"Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man."
Dazed and Confused
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
Gloria Anzaldua
"If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day. It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he made many trips to the temple."
R Brokhoff
"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
Jewish Proverb
People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.
Mary Pettibone Poole
"There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy."
Paul Rudnick
Always love your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
"Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch."
Yoshida Kenko
The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know it judges us by what we have.
Joyce Brothers