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The real Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners.


Moliere

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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. [Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon Est ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The true Amphitryon.
JOHN DRYDEN You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinn...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who ha...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who h...
CHAMFORT When a couple is arguing over who loves who more, the one that gives up is the real winner.
PHOTO Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who ...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT It takes just a few thoughts of the people to know who they are actually, but only to a person who i...
ANUJ SOMANY Until we identity the real cause of an ailment or problem,finding the cure will only be a mirage.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
LYTTON STRACHEY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES everybody need an opportunity to show the world who is real is...the question is where to get it and...
JOHN MWAKILAMA I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakesp...
DENNIS QUAID As a part of our campaign, we're launching a series of real-people, paper-plate dinners.
ROD SHEALY Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
WOODY ALLEN Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKY I'm interested in the real world.
EDWARD BOND Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.
STEPHEN KING That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for wh...
JIM MORRISON C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?
PATTI SMITH The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork
WILSON MIZNER Adam gives us a guard who can rebound and is a real tough player. He's a big guard for us and gives ...
DICK MCCONNELL If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
DEYTH BANGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE *Throwing bread out of door* AND STAY OUT!
RUSSELL T. DAVIES The person who gives is a person who has
LITHUANIAN PROVERB Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
FKA TWIGS Being offended is part of being in the real world.
COURTNEY LOVE The telling of stories creates the real world.
ALBERTO MANGUEL Essay on tragedy.
(1) The silence of Prometheus.
(2) The Elizabethans.
(3) Moliere. ALBERT CAMUS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.
NICK FROST The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.
YIDDISH PROVERB Bean dinners, as well as ramp dinners, are historically fundraising political rallies for Southern W...
MIKE GREEN Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take
JOCK EWING Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you j...
STEVEN MOFFAT In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE For economist the real world is often a special case.
EDGAR FIEDLER You don't get second chances in the real world.
GAIL SIMMONS In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds.
KATHLEEN TROIA MCFARLAND Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Now... Just run.' [said the Doctor.]
One of the things you learn very quickly around the Doctor...
JAMES GOSS I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh...
STEVEN MOFFAT The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put...
STEVEN MOFFAT It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.
STEVEN MOFFAT Angel Bob: Doctor? Excuse me, hello, Doctor? Angel Bob here, sir.
The Doctor: Ah, there you ar...
STEVEN MOFFAT There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.
STEVEN MOFFAT Geronimo!
STEVEN MOFFAT You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.
STEVEN MOFFAT It's Smith, actually.' Dr Smith smiled, bowing. 'I've remembered that my name is Smith. Almost defin...
JAMES GOSS Genius is not the one who gives answers, it's the one who asks the questions.
SAURABH GUPTA EARTH5R Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
GEORGE HERBERT Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picke...
BRANDON SANDERSON Christ is the core of my child's curriculum.
TAMARA L. CHILVER It gives a better 'yardstick' to the kit-builders (people who build their own airplanes). It will fe...
MIKE BROWN He obliterates things, she realized. He shatters them. They think they've won because he's a ...
NICK HARKAWAY There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
A. R. AMMONS There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real wo...
SAUL LEITER No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.
MICHAEL MOORE Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
ERIC S. RAYMOND Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?'
Doctor: 'Lots of pl...
RUSSELL T. DAVIES The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
D. H. LAWRENCE A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
NANCY REAGAN Honesty is the best policy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabrainge...
JANDY NELSON The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to br...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of bo...
JANDY NELSON I'll tell you," she says, getting up. "I just need a drink. You want one?"
"Now?" Libby makes ...
REBECCA JAMES She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and ...
JEFFERSON BETHKE The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUND A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was ...
KATY MIXON Life's irony;The person who gives you an inspirational book of less than $20 is greater than the one...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
MOTHER TERESA Anyone who gives up is worthless.
BRANDON INGE Sharing the same passionate love with another person, gives a feeling of being alive! The experience...
ELLEN J. BARRIER Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain...
BRUCE COVILLE The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improve...
UMBERTO ECO

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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
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MOLIERE It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
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MOLIERE If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIERE A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues ...
MOLIERE No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion...
MOLIERE All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political b...
MOLIERE People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLIERE A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly beha...
MOLIERE No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and le...
MOLIERE There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
MOLIERE Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the though...
MOLIERE Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly beha...
MOLIERE We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.
MOLIERE Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then f...
MOLIERE Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to h...
MOLIERE Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety
MOLIERE Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world ...
MOLIERE One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE Cover that bosom. I must not see it. Souls are wounded by such things, and they arouse wicked though...
MOLIERE As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt...
MOLIERE Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done s...
MOLIERE Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
MOLIERE There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in...
MOLIERE We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues ...
MOLIERE Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
MOLIERE Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyon...
MOLIERE Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it
MOLIERE The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
MOLIERE People can be induced to swallow anything, provide it is sufficiently seasoned with praise
MOLIERE Pure reason avoids extremes, and requires one to be wise in moderation.
MOLIERE People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE Ah that I- You would have it so, you would have it so; George Dandin, you would have it so! This sui...
MOLIERE Birth is nothing where virtue is not
MOLIERE Ah! Valere, all men say the same thing to women; all are alike in their words; their actions only sh...
MOLIERE What the devil did he want in that galley?
MOLIERE You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known.
MOLIERE All the power is with the sex that wears the beard
MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots.
MOLIERE It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.
MOLIERE The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.
MOLIERE Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married
MOLIERE I want to be understood; to be quite frank, the friend of the human race is not in the least my role...
MOLIERE Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain
MOLIERE I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others
MOLIERE How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
MOLIERE Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
MOLIERE It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble
MOLIERE Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIERE Assassination's the fastest way.
MOLIERE My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE Virtue in this world should be malleable.
MOLIERE I am addressing myself - I am addressing myself to my cap.
MOLIERE I assure you that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool
MOLIERE Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE Of course heaven forbids certain pleasures, but one finds means of compromise.
MOLIERE Man is, I confess, a wicked creature.
MOLIERE There's nothing like tobacco; it is the passion of all decent men-a man who lives without tobacco do...
MOLIERE Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE Things only have the value that we give them
MOLIERE Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love sho...
MOLIERE According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
MOLIERE It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
MOLIERE To live without loving is not really to live
MOLIERE It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others
MOLIERE It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives witho...
MOLIERE Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
MOLIERE A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE 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