Ernest Louis Victor Jules L'Epine (used pseudonym Jean Quatrelles) quote: "Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil."

Prosperity is a feeble reed. [Fr., C'est un faible roseau que la prosperite.]
JEAN DE SCHELANDRE (USED PSEUDONYM DANIEL D'ANCHERES)

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb migh...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window a...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . . To that dr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

"Presents," I often say, endear Absents."
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present wi...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wast...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Half as sober as a judge.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Neat, not gaudy.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main Kneel down and bless the empery ...
WILLIAM STEWART ROSS (USED PSEUDONYM SALADIN)

Self-confidence will take you places where degrees and money can't. beliefs in self will always make...
MICHELINE JEAN LOUIS

Today focus on the qualities you like about yourself, focus on the good friends and family members y...
MICHELINE JEAN LOUIS

The wind has many lovers and I am one of them, I move freely in her arms
I know no chains, nor ...
MICHELINE JEAN LOUIS

To the wonders of all things, we fall and then we are reborn
MICHELINE JEAN LOUIS

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointm...
JEAN-LOUIS GASSEE

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (use...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)

Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands, We two--ach! Don't you unde...
ALEXANDER MCGREGOR ROSE (USED PSEUDONYM A.M.R. GORDON)

Circumstances alter cases.
THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON (USED PSEUDONYM SAM SLICK)

Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be; His ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! ...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)

Autumn Into earth's lap does throw Brown apples gay in a game of play, As the equinoctia...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and r...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

With faces like dead lovers who died true.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

O how grandly cometh Even, Sitting on the mountain summit, Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!
JOHN WILSON (2) (USED PSEUDONYM CHRISTOPHER NORTH)

Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the cha...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight, And...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born t...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our eart...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

To-morrow is, ah, whose?
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be, He comes from Appomattox A...
CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY)

I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail! Pierce with thy trill the dark, Like a glitt...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark! Thy note is more loud and free Because there...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet; 'Twas ...
CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY)

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the tim...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave the...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its wi...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)

I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush! Through the wood's full strains I hear T...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Circumstances alter cases.
THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON USED PSEUDONYM SAM SLICK

Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old.
ANTHONY BERKELEY (A.B. COX) (USED PSEUDONYM FRANCIS ILES)

Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes, Lean s...
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)

Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.
ROBERT H. NEWELL (USED PSEUDONYM ORPHEUS C. KERR)

Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown; I think very di...
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)

[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.
CONRAD POTTER AIKEN (USED PSEUDONYM SAMUEL JEAKE, JR.)

Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot. - Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr)...
ROBERT H. NEWELL (USED PSEUDONYM ORPHEUS C. KERR)

I feel in every smile a chain.
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
JULES RENARD

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
JULES RENARD

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads...
JULES RENARD

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
JULES RENARD

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNE

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving ...
JULES RENARD

A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
JULES ORMONT

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
JULES RENARD

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
JULES RENARD

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
JULES RENARD

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
JULES RENARD

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving ...
JULES RENARD

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
JULES RENARD

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
JULES RENARD

Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will...
JULES ORMONT

When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
JULES VERNE

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
JULES RENARD

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
JULES RENARD

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, preposs...
JULES FEIFFER

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open t...
JULES RENARD

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
JULES MICHELET

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was s...
JULES FEIFFER

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
JULES RENARD

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
JULES RENARD

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
JULES ELLINGER

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
JULES RENARD

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
JULES RENARD

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
JULES RENARD

Not an inch of our territory not a stone of our fortress.
JULES FAVRE

School is an institution for drilling children in cultural orientation. ...American classrooms, like...
JULES HENRY

Fame is a constant effort
JULES RENARD

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
JULES ELLINGER

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
JULES RENARD

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead...
JULES RENARD

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions
JULES MICHELET

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.
JULES RENARD

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
JULES RENARD

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
JULES RENARD

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
JULES RENARD

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
JULES RENARD

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
JULES FEIFFER

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
JULES RENARD

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
JULES RENARD

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
JULES RENARD

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
JULES RENARD

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disor...
JULES VERNE

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinar...
JULES VERNE

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in...
JULES SHEAR

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
JULES FEIFFER

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discov...
JULES VERNE

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming t...
JULES VERNE

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a c...
JULES ASNER

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.
JULES VERNE

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
JULES RENARD

The bourgeois are other people.
JULES RENARD

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the de...
JULES RENARD

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.
JULES VERNE

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
JULES RENARD

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healt...
JULES VERNE

The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
JULES RENARD

Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder,...
JULES VERNE

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
JULES VERNE

In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee...
JULES VERNE

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians...
JULES VERNE

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is no...
JULES VERNE

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in...
JULES VERNE

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her sever...
JULES VERNE

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
JULES RENARD

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamble...
JULES VERNE

Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply im...
JULES VERNE

The sea is only the embodiment of a
supernatural and wonderful existence.
It is nothing bu...
JULES VERNE

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth an...
JULES VERNE

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to it...
JULES VERNE

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
JULES RENARD

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw tw...
JULES VERNE

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cau...
JULES VERNE

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
JULES VERNE

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNE

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is th...
JULES VERNE

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, a...
JULES VERNE

Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will...
JULES ORMONT

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
JULES ELLINGER

Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.
JULES ELLINGER

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
JULES COMBARIEU

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.
JULES ASNER

I hardly wear any makeup.
JULES ASNER

I can't stand accessories.
JULES ASNER

I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school....
JULES ASNER

I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.
JULES ASNER

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good rea...
JULES VERNE

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the ...
JULES VERNE

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which prod...
JULES VERNE

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the...
JULES VERNE

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their ch...
JULES VERNE

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.
JULES VERNE

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations ...
JULES MASSENET

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
JULES VERNE

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear...
JULES VERNE

A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.
JULES RENARD

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
JULES RENARD

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.
JULES RENARD

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving ...
JULES RENARD

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
JULES RENARD

I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not.
JULES RENARD

Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you wil...
JULES ORMONT

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
JULES RENARD

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. -...
JULES RENARD

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
JULES RENARD

Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and an irresponsible leader. Usi...
JULES CARLYSLE

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
JULES COMBARIEU

Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though i...
JULES FEIFFER

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
JULES VERNE

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
JULES RENARD

Words are the small change of thought.
JULES RENARD

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they'v...
JULES FEIFFER

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
JULES RENARD

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color...
JULES FEIFFER

I grew up to have my father's looks - my fathers speech patterns - my father's posture - my father's...
JULES FEIFFER

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.
JULES FEIFFER

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen, and all of a sudden they'...
JULES FEIFFER

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
JULES FEIFFER

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
JULES RENARD

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
JULES RENARD

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you...
JULES RENARD

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others
JULES RENARD

This forcible abduction, so roughly carried out, was accomplished with the rapidity of lightning. I ...
JULES VERNE

Could you imagine the OUTRAGE that would ensue if an artist thanked Allah or Zeus for their Grammy A...
JULES CARLYSLE

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
JULES VERNE

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this...
JULES VERNE

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.
JULES VERNE

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His in...
JULES VERNE

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by co...
JULES VERNE

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody
JULES RENARD

Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil.

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Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil.

Ernest Louis Victor Jules L'Epine (used pseudonym Jean Quatrelles)

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