The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme ...
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE A friend in need is a friend indeed.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. [Lat., Les soupcons importun...
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE But without money honor is nothing but a malady
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE None love, but they who wish to love
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE The heart that can no longer love passionately, must with fury hate
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Often it is fatal to live too long.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN RACINE Without money honor is merely a disease.
JEAN RACINE It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN RACINE Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
JEAN RACINE There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
JEAN RACINE Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
JEAN RACINE A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadnes...
JEAN RACINE Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covere...
JEAN RACINE I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
JEAN RACINE A single word often betrays a great design.
JEAN RACINE A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sa...
JEAN RACINE I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
JEAN RACINE There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
JEAN RACINE On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
JEAN RACINE I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
JEAN RACINE A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
JEAN RACINE How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
JEAN RACINE In politics nothing is contemptible.
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT Finality is not the language of politics.
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE MASILLON If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of th...
JEAN BAPTISTE LEGOUVE A brother is a friend given by Nature.
JEAN BAPTISTE LEGOUVE Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin ...
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE A Republican by principle and devotion, I will, until my death, oppose all Royalists and all enemies...
JEAN BAPTISTE BERNADOTTE I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
JEAN-BAPTISTE COROT The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of fe...
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin...
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enter...
JEAN BAPTISTE MONTEGUT Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
JEAN BAPTISTE ROUSSEAU The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the...
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin ...
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE I still take my own lunches to work. That way I can control what I'm eating, as opposed to anoth...
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE Gratitude is the memory of the heart. [Fr., La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.]
JEAN BAPTISTE MASSIEU All that I know of tomorrow is that Providence will rise before the sun.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and ...
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot...
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak
JEAN BAPTISTE MASILLON The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least his...
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organ...
JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARCK In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A...
JEAN-BAPTISTE DUMAS My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy. JEAN-BAPTISTE BIOT I actually like getting up to blue skies.
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE It is simply, and solely, the abundance of money within a state [which] makes the difference in its ...
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; ...
JEAN-BAPTISTE DUMAS Britain is no longer totally a white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea....
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. [Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon Est ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleur...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. [Fr., Vous l'...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding suc...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la cho...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. [Fr., La parfaite ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Hate your haters, then you are no different
from them.
RACINE BAMWANYA We feel good about our chances. Everyone's healthy and in good shape, but more so than anything else...
DERRICK RACINE The guys team this year is young, and we're certainly not the most experienced team in the field. Bu...
DERRICK RACINE Any and all pressure we feel, we put on ourselves.
DERRICK RACINE We're a pretty good team, but our shots weren't falling. We hung in there and it was close. I told t...
DON RACINE It's great. We're catching up to the boys as far as being one of the better leagues in the state. It...
DON RACINE Defensively, we did a great job. With a team like that, you really have to guard the three.
DON RACINE We made some big 3-pointers and we win games when we shoot the ball well on the perimeter. We did a ...
BRIAN BAPTISTE We made our free throws down the stretch and that was huge. We came out of the gate pretty good to s...
BRIAN BAPTISTE When we score inside, that opens things up on the perimeter and we've been successful when we've bee...
BRIAN BAPTISTE Losing Chris was a tough break and I really didn't know how the team was going to react. It took a l...
BRIAN BAPTISTE We are here to accompany the people in peace. The problem is the United Nations is trying to annihil...
WILLIAM BAPTISTE If you journalists weren't here, the U.N. would be shooting at us. They have destroyed our homes. Ou...
WILLIAM BAPTISTE Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the frien...
JOHN BAPTISTE DUBOIS Our goal had been to find all seven people, but I have to rely on the experts to tell me when they h...
MAYOR BRYAN BAPTISTE Leadership and communication go hand in hand.
MAYOR BRYAN BAPTISTE There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He return...
JEAN COCTEAU The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
JEAN INGELOW Only the mediocre are always at their best.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
JEAN INGELOW My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
WYCLEF JEAN Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't...
WYCLEF JEAN In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and...
JEAN SEBERG There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture....
JEAN CHATZKY One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Conside...
JEAN CHATZKY The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of ...
JEAN CHATZKY Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices s...
JEAN CHATZKY I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th...
JEAN ROSTAND A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in...
WYCLEF JEAN Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
WYCLEF JEAN The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
JEAN COCTEAU Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...
JEAN KERR I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
JEAN ROSTAND Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of...
JEAN CHATZKY A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ...
JEAN LUSH Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
JEAN ROSTAND When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than...
JEAN ROSTAND It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, wit...
JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...
JEAN ROSTAND The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
JEAN RENOIR To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he f...
JEAN FERRIS Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
JEAN ROSTAND She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm...
JEAN RHYS In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
JEAN ROSTAND In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
JEAN ROSTAND One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the...
JEAN KERR Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understa...
JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains t...
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND God, that checkroom of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. ...
JEAN FERRIS The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ...
JEAN PIAGET You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe...
JEAN KERR Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
JEAN ROSTAND The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange...
JEAN PAUL We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...
JEAN VANIER Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAU At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
JEAN RHYS A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENET Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole arra...
JEAN ROSTAND Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a...
JEAN GENET Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's v...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
JEAN PAUL The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
JEAN PAUL To be adult is to be alone.
JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges...
JEAN GENET All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an...
JEAN COCTEAU No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
JEAN ROSTAND You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...
JEAN KERR If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must ...
JEAN COCTEAU We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.
JEAN HOUSTON The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this si...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
JEAN PAUL The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
JEAN KERR The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
JEAN KERR