The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
ANATOLE FRANCE It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
ANATOLE FRANCE We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
ANATOLE FRANCE One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy...
ANATOLE FRANCE A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
ANATOLE FRANCE A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
ANATOLE FRANCE The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for ...
ANATOLE FRANCE The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to...
ANATOLE FRANCE That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
ANATOLE FRANCE Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
ANATOLE FRANCE The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the ...
ANATOLE FRANCE To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
ANATOLE FRANCE Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
ANATOLE FRANCE To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ANATOLE FRANCE It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnish...
ANATOLE FRANCE It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
ANATOLE FRANCE Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
ANATOLE FRANCE The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to ...
ANATOLE FRANCE I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to l...
ANATOLE FRANCE A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
ANATOLE FRANCE To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCE Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we ...
ANATOLE FRANCE Night has come! Leaning from the window, we gaze at the vast sombre stretch of the city below us, pi...
ANATOLE FRANCE To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
ANATOLE FRANCE In art as in love, instinct is enough.
ANATOLE FRANCE Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCE An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able...
ANATOLE FRANCE Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
ANATOLE FRANCE If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
ANATOLE FRANCE It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
ANATOLE FRANCE Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
ANATOLE FRANCE History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
ANATOLE FRANCE I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCE Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never...
ANATOLE FRANCE That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
ANATOLE FRANCE There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated ...
ANATOLE FRANCE What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
ANATOLE FRANCE When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
ANATOLE FRANCE Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
ANATOLE FRANCE Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
ANATOLE FRANCE It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
ANATOLE FRANCE The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float up...
ANATOLE FRANCE The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forev...
ANATOLE FRANCE Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCE The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign.
ANATOLE FRANCE Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.
ANATOLE FRANCE No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is ...
ANATOLE FRANCE To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCE Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
ANATOLE FRANCE Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for ...
ANATOLE FRANCE When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it
ANATOLE FRANCE Unhappiness does make people look stupid
ANATOLE FRANCE The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the ...
ANATOLE FRANCE I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCE How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from...
ANATOLE FRANCE We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
ANATOLE FRANCE It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCE The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to b...
ANATOLE FRANCE The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forev...
ANATOLE FRANCE It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCE Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCE When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
ANATOLE FRANCE The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
ANATOLE FRANCE Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
ANATOLE FRANCE If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
ANATOLE FRANCE The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is every...
ANATOLE FRANCE Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
ANATOLE FRANCE Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
ANATOLE FRANCE If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCE Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
ANATOLE FRANCE You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just...
ANATOLE FRANCE An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's be...
ANATOLE FRANCE It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, mak...
ANATOLE FRANCE The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as w...
ANATOLE FRANCE It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCE Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCE Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; th...
ANATOLE FRANCE I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCE It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
ANATOLE FRANCE The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to b...
ANATOLE FRANCE People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them
ANATOLE FRANCE The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last foreve...
ANATOLE FRANCE The impotence of God is infinite.
ANATOLE FRANCE Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
ANATOLE FRANCE When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
ANATOLE FRANCE People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCE To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
ANATOLE FRANCE To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCE To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCE So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. An...
ANATOLE FRANCE It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
ANATOLE FRANCE If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCE All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part ...
ANATOLE FRANCE It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
ANATOLE FRANCE An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able...
ANATOLE FRANCE The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
ANATOLE FRANCE Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is...
ANATOLE FRANCE You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
ANATOLE FRANCE The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.
ANATOLE FRANCE The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last for...
ANATOLE FRANCE You change your life by changing your heart.
ANATOLE FRANCE Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another
ANATOLE FRANCE Nothing spoils a confession like repentance
ANATOLE FRANCE It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg
ANATOLE FRANCE The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it
ANATOLE FRANCE All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious
ANATOLE FRANCE The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them
ANATOLE FRANCE People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them
ANATOLE FRANCE We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best
ANATOLE FRANCE It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be
ANATOLE FRANCE Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
ANATOLE FRANCE We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pli...
ANATOLE FRANCE A woman must decide between a man who women like, and then have no security, or a man who women don�...
ANATOLE FRANCE I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and...
ANATOLE FRANCE To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCE In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing
ANATOLE FRANCE One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irr...
ANATOLE FRANCE Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
ANATOLE FRANCE The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last foreve...
ANATOLE FRANCE Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but t...
ANATOLE FRANCE J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.
ANATOLE FRANCE If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a crue...
ANATOLE FRANCE America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments
ANATOLE FRANCE It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. Fro...
ANATOLE FRANCE He despises men with tenderness
ANATOLE FRANCE Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCE Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
ANATOLE FRANCE What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by c...
ANATOLE FRANCE The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere
ANATOLE FRANCE The impotence of God is infinite
ANATOLE FRANCE If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a crue...
ANATOLE FRANCE It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly
ANATOLE FRANCE The future is a convenient place for dreams
ANATOLE FRANCE A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself
ANATOLE FRANCE War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffe...
ANATOLE FRANCE A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows
ANATOLE FRANCE Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the ...
ANATOLE FRANCE Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom
ANATOLE FRANCE Silence is the wit of fools.
ANATOLE FRANCE It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown
ANATOLE FRANCE We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent
ANATOLE FRANCE The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
ANATOLE FRANCE He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very gre...
ANATOLE FRANCE It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
ANATOLE FRANCE The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces
ANATOLE FRANCE Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
ANATOLE FRANCE Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
ANATOLE FRANCE Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
ANATOLE FRANCE The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of p...
ANATOLE FRANCE Make love now, by night and by day, in winter and in summer... You are in the world for that and the...
ANATOLE FRANCE A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces.
ANATOLE FRANCE There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated ...
ANATOLE FRANCE The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to b...
ANATOLE FRANCE If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCE The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
ANATOLE FRANCE Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
ANATOLE BROYARD She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was ...
ANATOLE BROYARD It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with lov...
ANATOLE BROYARD The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily...
ANATOLE BROYARD The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many i...
ANATOLE BROYARD His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, ...
ANATOLE BROYARD To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The grea...
ANATOLE BROYARD The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to ...
ANATOLE BROYARD The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of th...
ANATOLE BROYARD If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at leas...
ANATOLE BROYARD The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momen...
ANATOLE BROYARD Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
ANATOLE BROYARD There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present,...
ANATOLE BROYARD We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
ANATOLE BROYARD Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
ANATOLE BROYARD It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with lov...
ANATOLE BROYARD To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. ...
ANATOLE BROYARD There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, ...
ANATOLE BROYARD Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form...
ANATOLE BROYARD Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
ANATOLE BROYARD Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
ANATOLE BROYARD When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
ANATOLE BROYARD We are very under-covered for the size audience we have. The good news for us is we're looking at th...
BRIAN FRANCE I can understand that. He is the only one with five teams, so it's very understandable he's disappoi...
BRIAN FRANCE We are going to look at the Chase when the season clears, but my sense of it is that it isn't going ...
BRIAN FRANCE The Busch Series is quietly doing NBA or regular season baseball numbers. It's wearing out other spo...
BRIAN FRANCE We don't want to penalize him unnecessarily. He started out with five teams in a system that allowed...
BRIAN FRANCE We knew that when we did all the moves in the last three years, another event in Phoenix in the cale...
BRIAN FRANCE I think they're going to have a very big crowd. We're gaining a lot of momentum. It's going to take ...
BRIAN FRANCE They're going to have a sushi bar and make this place feel a little bit more like where it is: South...
BRIAN FRANCE I congratulate Chris Powell and LVMS for launching this improvement project. The new garage area wil...
BRIAN FRANCE We'd always like it to be closer, but it really is close enough for us. The perfect scenario would b...
BRIAN FRANCE We are not happy that he has had a progression of pushing the envelope. We expect everybody to be ag...
BRIAN FRANCE It has been a big distraction. We haven't announced the final penalty for Chad yet. We don't expect ...
BRIAN FRANCE This is the maximum amount of power we can currently test. We suspect the coil is even more powerful...
DANIELLE FRANCE I think there's a tremendous ripple effect. For a species like the grizzly, it's an indicator specie...
TOM FRANCE As far as Ronnie hurting himself, we are aware of how it could affect him. It has affected guys diff...
TODD FRANCE It's not a flag I look at (as) anything favorable.
BRIAN FRANCE We're getting down to the wire. Looks to be in the next four to six weeks or sooner there will be so...
BRIAN FRANCE