Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
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Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.
[A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]
GEORGE HERBERT Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
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NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO It is a lie.
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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) Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
COMTE DE BUSSY-RABUTIN This is a big rival. And it doesn't make a difference who's playing well and who's the better team b...
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MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL The human heart will never wrinkle.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee.
[Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine pass...
MME. MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SEVIGNE As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
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ROGER MOORE ' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' p...
ROGER EBERT In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.
ROGER STAUBACH Every man's closet must contain a trench coat. It's hard for any gentleman not to look dashi...
ROGER STONE You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take...
ROGER EBERT How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to ...
ROGER STONE Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaig...
ROGER STONE Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media ...
ROGER STONE I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists a...
ROGER AILES Wish You Were Here
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys...
ROGER WATERS The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is...
ROGER SPOTTISWOODE The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cli...
ROGER GOODELL From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives...
ROGER EBERT If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I gue...
ROGER ZELAZNY It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the bi...
ROGER BART No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever b...
ROGER EBERT In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.
ROGER AILES Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
ROGER MAHONY A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have b...
ROGER MOORE I believe the GOP should pitch its big-top tent around fiscal conservatism and a muscular foreign po...
ROGER STONE