55 quotes found
“There are no ugly women there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.”
“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”
“If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.”
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.”
“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.”
“The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.”
“The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.”
“The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.”
“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.”
“As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live a physician will be made fun of but he will be well paid.”
“There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.”
“We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all.”
“Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.”
