Vicomte de Valmont Famous Quotes
"What then have I done What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust."
Vicomte de Valmont Quotations
"Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish."
Ovid
God is a verb.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
James Thurber
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
Dorothy Parker
"A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year."
Dixie Lee Ray
"Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together."
Ovid
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
Anon
"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
"In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)"
George Will