SbastienRoch Nicolas de Chamfort Famous Quotes
"Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all."
Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before.
"All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed."
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
SbastienRoch Nicolas de Chamfort Quotations
"Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."
Benjamin Disraeli
Our lives teach us who we are.
Salman Rushdie
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Miller
"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress."
Calvin Coolidge
Change everything except your loves.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
John Gay
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
Orlando A Battista
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Confucius
"I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes."
Miguel de Cervantes