Pierre Corneille Famous Quotes
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
"Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead"
"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
"He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be."
Pierre Corneille Quotations
"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."
James Thurber
To try to be better is to be better.
Charlotte Cushman
"It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'"
Athenus
"Where you find true friendship, You find true love."
Unknown
All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade.
Marcel Proust
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Muriel Spark
"If I had the time to sit down and write a thank-you note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful world that would be"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
Abigail Adams
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
Aristophanes