Qui plus sait, plus se tait
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Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The stronger always succeeds.
[Lat., Plus potest qui plus valet.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) Qui cherche et ne saisit pas ce qui s'offre ne le reverra jamais plus.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.
NICOLAS BOILEAU Mais elle sait que rien ne sera plus pareil, plus d'interdit, fini le frisson du mensonge qui écras...
SYLVIE LE BIHAN Rien n'est plus dangereux qu'une société qui ne lit pas
MOULOUD BENZADI Nul n'est plus chanceux que celui qui croit à sa chance.
PROVERBE ALLEMAND —Mais, quelle que soit l'importance de l'événement, dès qu'il est écrit sur le papier, il ne f...
YōKO OGAWA He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.
[Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.]
LOUIS XI Le voyageur sait qu'il n'y a plus de bouts du monde. Ils sont tous atteints, balisés, photographié...
JEAN-DIDIER URBAIN Je suis sans pitié ! Je suis sans pitié ! Plus les vers se tordent, plus grande est mon envie de l...
EMILY BRONTë Rien n'est plus troublant que les mouvements incessants de ce qui semble immobile. p214 (Minuit)
GILLES DELEUZE De celui qui dans la bataille a vaincu mille milliers d'hommes et de celui qui s'est vaincu lui-mêm...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Que l'on soit absent dans la pièce voisine, ou sur l'autre versant de la planète, la différence n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ...
GEORGES PEREC C'est bien en nous que se féconde le plus joyeux et doux jardin du monde.
ÉMILE VERHAEREN Les gens qui ont besoin de plus qu une valise ne sont pas de vrais voyageurs, ce sont des touristes.
IRA LEVIN Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
A fool always finds a greater fool to ad...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
[Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Parce qu'il y a certaines habitudes qui deviennent vitales. Aussi futiles soient elles, elles devien...
CAMILLE L. Le travail ne représentait qu'ennui pour moi, je détestais aller au bureau. Je me sentais vraiment...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Who destroys is destroyed. Who builds is built. (Qui détruit se détruit. Qui construit se construi...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Voilà bien la famille : même celui qui n'a pas sa place dans le monde, qui n'est ni célèbre ni r...
ROBERT MUSIL Personne ne fait une plus grosse erreur que celui qui ne fait rien car il ne pense pouvoir n'en fair...
EDMUND BURKE Lorsque, bien plus tard, au lycée, M. Laplane nous enseigna que la chouette était l'oiseau de Mine...
MARCEL PAGNOL Qui se humilliat exaltabitur
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
BOB RICHARDS Camp is popularity plus vulgarity plus innocence.
INDRA JAHALANI La classe des ouvriers modernes, qui ne vivent qu'à la condition de trouver du travail, et qui n'en...
KARL MARX J'apprécie que les cousins se comportent en cousins & se préoccupent les uns des autres. Car, ...
JANE AUSTEN [A propos du faux évolutionnisme] Il s'agit d'une tentative pour supprimer la diversité des cultur...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch.
[Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque
Qui...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.
EDDIE ALBERT Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
EDWARD ALBERT Il y a des beautés qui sautent aux yeux et d'autres qui sont écrites en hyéroglyphes: on met du t...
AMéLIE NOTHOMB Il parvint à la reconnaitre au milieu du tumulte et, à travers les larmes de sa douleur irrémédi...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ La plupart sont aveugles dans cet univers du langage;
sourds aux mots qu'ils emploient. Leurs p...
PAUL VALéRY UREX-Plus is just PUREX with lipstick.
FRANK VON HIPPEL But whether payrolls come in at minus 10,000 or plus 10,000, it won't tell you that much.
GERALD COHEN Il n'y a pas d'amour dans la liberté individuelle, dans l'indépendance, c'est tout simplement un m...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equiva...
DIXIE LEE RAY The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equiva...
DIXIE LEE RAY I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.
RACHEL KUSHNER The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're co...
JACK DORSEY It used to be 30-plus days to be extended stay. Then it was seven-plus and now it's even five-plus d...
JOE BROWN Est-ce que nous voyons la cent millième partie de ce qui existe ? Tenez, voici le vent, qui est la ...
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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creati...
MARSHA BLACKBURN Quant aux toilettes, elles etainet tout simplement inexistantes. Pour faire ses besoins, il fallait ...
ANINA CIUCIU Cease not to learn until thou cease to live;
Think that day lost wherein thou draw'st no letter,
...
GUY DE FAUR, LORD OF PIBRAC Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at ot...
KATIE ASELTON The more fools the more one laughs.
[Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.]
FLORENT CARTON DANCOURT La raison nous impose des limites bien trop étroites et nous invite à ne vivre que le connu - enco...
C.G. JUNG La civilisation occidentale s'est entièrement tournée, depuis deux ou trois siècles, vers la mise...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Having her back is a plus. Pam always produces.
JANEVIA TAYLOR The formula was simple: E + F + C = M. That is, excitement plus fatigue, plus confusion equals mista...
RUTLEDGE ETHERIDGE Puisque l'amour est cause de la joie, où l'amour est plus grand, la joie est plus manifeste.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Decision plus action = results.
JOHN DI LEMME Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool fo...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Du reste, la majorité des orientalistes ne sont et ne veulent être que des érudits ; tant qu’il...
RENé GUéNON Je me rends parfaitement compte du desagreable effet que produit sur la majorite de l'humanité, tou...
HIRAM STEVENS MAXIM The metal here is in a very dry area, so that's a plus. The wreckage is in a secure place, so that's...
DANIEL MARTINEZ Plus je vois le homes, plus j’admire les chiens” (The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs)...
MARIE-JEANNE ROLAND DE LA PLATIèRE More love lacks causes, more its effects fulfill them. (Et plus l'amour manque de causes, - Plus ses...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
CAROL BURNETT My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
HANK STRAM Achievement is talent plus preparation
MALCOLM GLADWELL Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
CHARLIE FINLEY Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
UPTON SINCLAIR Comedy is tragedy plus time.
CAROL BURNETT My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
HANK STRAM Comedy is tragedy - plus time
CAROL BURNETT Humor is tragedy plus time
MARK TWAIN Persistence plus effort equals success.
JIM GENOVESE Aptitude plus obsession equals greatness
JOSH BEZONI Plus, it's pretty damn funny.
ELIZABETH ORDENSTEIN It's a rematch, plus Morales.
LARRY HUFFORD Les tentatives faites pour connaître la richesse et l'originalité des cultures humaines, et pour l...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Your formula is usually who, plus where, plus when, plus how. Usually, when you fill in those blanks...
GERALD NANCE Elle voulait autre chose. Des mains qui se touchent sans rien donner.
TIMOTHéE DE FOMBELLE On peut s’expliquer facilement par là un fait que nous avons eu fréquemment l’occasion de cons...
RENé GUéNON They have a special confidence in Christ, plus thoughtfulness plus faithfulness plus humility: for t...
CRISS JAMI Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMES Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
CAROL BURNETT Plus those guys don't have mascots.
ANGEL ACOSTA Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER I am I plus my circumstances.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".
THOMAS SOWELL Regret is just perfectionism plus time.
B.J. NOVAK Online advertising is display plus search.
DAVID FILO L'aube approche. Elle n'est plus qu'à quelques pas de cette zone étrange qui sépare la nuit du jo...
ELIF SHAFAK Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possèd...
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MIRCEA CăRTăRESCU Ils verseront de sottes larmes et comprendront, que le créateur, en les faisant rebelles a voulu se...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Le chuintement des portes qui se referment masque mon salut au chauffeur, et le bus redémarre dans ...
JULIE TURCONI “In our world where everything is a number, struggle to be a plus to anybody, rather than a minus....
JOHN B. BEJO Frank has been a plus for the facility and the state.
BILL ARNOLD If I had to give a grade to Howard Stringer, I'd give him a C-plus. He talks a lot about restructuri...
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