Paul Valery Famous Quotes
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder.
"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
"That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false."
"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to."
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
"That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false."
"Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."
Paul Valery Quotations
Why was I so blind that I couldn't see our love was changing underneath our very noses
Jessica Sharp
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Lynd
No man loves life like him that's growing old.
Sophocles
"What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
"Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devourBrightness falls from the airQueens have died young and fairDust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must dieLord have mercy on us."
Thomas Nash
"I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally."
Zelda
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
Mark Twain
"As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes."
Bhagavad Gita
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P J O Rourke