The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT One must not hope to be more than one can be.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of tim...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who de...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselve...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who ha...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The ...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT A day without laughter is a day wasted.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we ...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and th...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in ...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injust...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead.
NICOLAS-SEBASTIEN CHAMFORT Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who de...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than li...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good gene...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Success makes success, like money makes money.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for se...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT How many fools does it take to make up a public?
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT What I learned I no longer know; the little I still know, I guessed.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who ...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he h...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters; first picking the best o...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. About Pa...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but t...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Once we have resolved only to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and tru...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The reme...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
CHAMFORT There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
CHAMFORT In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express ...
CHAMFORT Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselve...
CHAMFORT Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day.
CHAMFORT Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they...
CHAMFORT Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
CHAMFORT Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life
CHAMFORT At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, an...
CHAMFORT Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history
CHAMFORT The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live...
CHAMFORT It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but t...
CHAMFORT Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last
CHAMFORT I would say of metaphysicians what Scaliger said of the Basques: they are said to understand each ot...
CHAMFORT I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who de...
CHAMFORT There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools
CHAMFORT Most anthologists... of quotations are like those who eat cherries... first picking the best ones an...
CHAMFORT If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toi...
CHAMFORT All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate
CHAMFORT There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of tim...
CHAMFORT Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
CHAMFORT Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day
CHAMFORT Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who h...
CHAMFORT The world either breaks or hardens the heart
CHAMFORT Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
CHAMFORT A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good gener...
CHAMFORT Love, in present-day society, is just the exchange of two imaginary pictures, and the contact of one...
CHAMFORT Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About P...
CHAMFORT The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
CHAMFORT Chance is a nickname of Providence
CHAMFORT One must not hope to be more than one can be.
CHAMFORT Of lies, false modesty is the most decent
CHAMFORT It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we ...
CHAMFORT People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
CHAMFORT The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and th...
CHAMFORT Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
CHAMFORT Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich
CHAMFORT The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed
CHAMFORT An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than li...
CHAMFORT All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed.
CHAMFORT The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
CHAMFORT A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
CHAMFORT A woman is like your shadow - follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows
CHAMFORT It is easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate
CHAMFORT The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as...
CHAMFORT No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it
CHAMFORT Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
CHAMFORT No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it.
SEBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? [Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fas...
SEBASTIEN-ROCH-NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Success makes success, like money makes money.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for se...
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
SEBASTIEN CHAMFORT The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautiful...
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves a...
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers an...
NICOLAS CAGE I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdate...
NICOLAS CAGE Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From...
NICOLAS MADURO We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the &#...
NICOLAS MADURO When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up....
NICOLAS ROEG Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner ...
NICOLAS CAGE Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner ...
NICOLAS CAGE Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themse...
NICOLAS WALTER When someone says that the free market isn't working, what he means is that he doesn't like the way ...
NICOLAS MARTIN It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
NICOLAS CAUSSIN I don't like it when people on the street say smile or cheer up. It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling...
NICOLAS CAGE He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
NICOLAS BENTLEY I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it fester...
NICOLAS CAGE I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than...
NICOLAS CAGE We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.
NICOLAS ROEG I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I c...
NICOLAS CAGE Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an a...
NICOLAS CAGE Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - ...
NICOLAS BERGGRUEN I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'How...
NICOLAS CAGE President Chavez has always been a loyal friend of Gaddafi, assassinated in the crudest way possible...
NICOLAS MADURO I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid pl...
NICOLAS CAGE Similar questions were posed to Allende as to me. Allende was told that he blamed everything on a co...
NICOLAS MADURO I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had ...
NICOLAS CAGE Let's dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a ...
NICOLAS MADURO How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not...
NICOLAS CAGE Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a livi...
NICOLAS MADURO If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligenc...
NICOLAS CAGE Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like...
NICOLAS CAGE I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I st...
NICOLAS CAGE And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft o...
NICOLAS ROEG You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a hug...
NICOLAS ROEG I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and h...
NICOLAS ROEG I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't ...
NICOLAS ROEG The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scar...
NICOLAS CAGE I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood ...
NICOLAS CAGE I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches...
NICOLAS MADURO I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we re...
NICOLAS MADURO The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribut...
NICOLAS MADURO I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria ...
NICOLAS CAGE Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I ...
NICOLAS CAGE I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez...
NICOLAS MADURO You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE The United States are ruled by a financial, media-centered, military-industrial apparatus. Behind Ob...
NICOLAS MADURO Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of...
NICOLAS SARKOZY One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually re...
NICOLAS CAGE I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few...
NICOLAS BERGGRUEN We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its at...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE