Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far strong...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who m...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, ...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a hum...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far strong...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Museums are the cemeteries of the arts
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings ar...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Wonderful power of a book, that can work upon the feelings of an untutored child and an ignorant fam...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Poetry has no echo so loud and long as in the heart of youth in which love is just springing into li...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE would seem as though language is the only predestination of man, and that he is created to bring it ...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings ar...
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE Museums are the cemeteries of the arts
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
ALPHONSE LAMARTINE A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries...
ALPHONSE KARR We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.
ALPHONSE KARR Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they th...
ALPHONSE KARR Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he think...
ALPHONSE KARR The more things change, the more they are the same.
ALPHONSE KARR The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fal...
ALPHONSE DAUDET Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding...
ALPHONSE KARR Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.
ALPHONSE DAUDET Hatred -- The anger of the weak.
ALPHONSE DAUDET We can invent only with memory.
ALPHONSE KARR Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the...
ALPHONSE KARR Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
ALPHONSE KARR I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presi...
ALPHONSE KARR Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which incl...
ALPHONSE KARR Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
ALPHONSE KARR Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
ALPHONSE KARR If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the ...
ALPHONSE KARR Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks...
ALPHONSE KARR If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
ALPHONSE KARR Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
ALPHONSE ALLAIS Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR If we are to abolish the death penalty, let our friends the murderers make the first move.
ALPHONSE KARR Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
ALPHONSE DAUDET One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind
ALPHONSE BERTILLON Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
ALPHONSE ALLAIS Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank
ALPHONSE ALLAIS Oh, this terrible second me, always seated whilst the other is on foot, acting, living, suffering, b...
ALPHONSE DAUDET The more things change, the more they remain the same.
ALPHONSE KARR If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious
ALPHONSE KARR Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which incl...
ALPHONSE KARR If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the ...
ALPHONSE KARR Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others
ALPHONSE KARR De leur meilleur côté tâchons de voir les choses:
Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers ép...
ALPHONSE KARR Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks h...
ALPHONSE KARR (1808-1890) In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among t...
CHARLES LOUIS ALPHONSE LAVERAN In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spheric...
CHARLES LOUIS ALPHONSE LAVERAN I had the opportunity of making necropsies on patients dead from malignant fever and of studying the...
CHARLES LOUIS ALPHONSE LAVERAN Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
DE KNUDSON I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about ...
DE KNUDSON Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
DE HEARN It was a good education for the students.
DE HEARN We wanted the students to recognize and participate in the unique history of Wall. Students should h...
DE HEARN All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
DE CASSERES How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! Ho...
DE SURIN It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE) Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, ...
CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS DE CHASSEBEOUF DE VOLNEY When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY) A new maxim is often a brilliant error.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES The human heart will never wrinkle.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
FRANS DE WAAL I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t...
FRANS DE WAAL I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva...
YVONNE DE CARLO I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
YVONNE DE CARLO I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
YVONNE DE CARLO Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
YVONNE DE CARLO I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become ...
YVONNE DE CARLO I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
YVONNE DE CARLO After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a prop...
YVONNE DE CARLO The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to d...
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid t...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actres...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and ha...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfri...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
INDIA DE BEAUFORT School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long p...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. W...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU