Egipcia De Perfil Quotes

#1. There is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire. #Quote by Christine De Pizan

#2. If anyone gets intoxicated with his knowledge when he looks beneath him, let him turn his eyes upward toward past ages, and he will lower his horns, finding there so many thousands of minds that trample him underfoot. If he gets into some flattering presumption about his valor, let him remember the lives of the two Scipios, so many armies, so many nations, all of whom leave him so far behind them. No particular quality will make a man proud who balances it against the many weaknesses and imperfections that are also in him, and, in the end, against the nullity of man's estate. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#3. You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same good spirits it had upon leaving it. #Quote by Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere

#5. You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#6. The love of esteem is the life and soul of society; it unites us to one another : I want your approbation, you stand in need of mine. By forsaking the converse of men, we forsake the virtues necessary for society; for when one is alone, one is apt to grow negligent; the world forces you to have a guard over yourself. #Quote by Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#7. We have a thousand possible, but only one is the target. (Nous avons mille possibles, - Mais un seul est la cible) #Quote by Charles De Leusse

#8. If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father. #Quote by Jean De La Bruyere

#9. I surround myself with bliss. My home is a blissful oasis that nourishes me and brings me joy. #Quote by Amy Leigh Mercree

#10. You can't do this,' I said, though I had nothing whatsoever to back up my statement.
'Why not? I seem to have an army behind me.'
'We have a Saint,' Brasti said, pointing at Kest.
'Your Saint seems to be unconscious,' the Duke replied. #Quote by Sebastien De Castell

#11. I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#12. Socialism is submission of the masochistic masses to the will of the sadistic elites. #Quote by A.E. Samaan

#13. Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#14. I have heard of patriotism in the United States, and it is a virtue which may be found among the people, but never among the leaders of the people. #Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville

#15. You're one of them de Luce girls over from Buckshaw. I'd rec'nize them cold blue eyes anywhere. #Quote by Alan Bradley

#16. Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#17. And if not the butterflies– and the caterpillars– who will call upon me? You will
be far away. . . as for the large animals– I am not at all afraid of any of them. I
have my claws.”
And, navely, she showed her four thorns. Then she added:
“Don’t linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!”
For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower. . . #Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery

#18. It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#19. There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#20. The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing off the weight that lay heavy upon it. #Quote by Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#21. Women know not the whole of their coquetry. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#22. The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#23. I admit that one should never underestimate the capacity of banks to destroy enormous amounts of accumulated capital and reduce, temporarily, the supply. After all, capital is the accumulated savings of mankind. And banks are great masters in destroying enormous amounts of capital with great regularity. #Quote by Arie De Geus

#24. The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns. #Quote by Madame De Stael

#25. The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire. #Quote by Miguel De Unamuno

#26. The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#27. A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars. #Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery

#28. [O Ruler of Olympus, why did it please thee to add more care to worried mortals by letting them learn of future slaughters by means of cruel omens! Whatever thou hast in store, do it unexpectedly; let the minds of men be blind to their future fate: let him who fears, still cling to hope!] #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#29. I have come too late into a world too old. #Quote by Alfred De Musset

#30. Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness? #Quote by Eugenio Maria De Hostos

#31. A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#32. I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion. #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#33. Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them. #Quote by Jean De La Bruyere

#34. Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#35. One is very weak when one is in love. #Quote by Madame De La Fayette

#36. I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep. #Quote by Kevin Hart

#37. A good silence never harmed anyone but speaking often causes harm. #Quote by Chretien De Troyes

#38. The King of Glory does not reward His servants according to the dignity of their office, but according to the humility and love with which they have exercised it. #Quote by Francis De Sales

#39. Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#40. To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one. #Quote by Victoria De Los Angeles

#41. In the Savage Garden you shine beautifully, my friend. You walk as if it is your garden to do with as you please. And in my wanderings, I always return to you. I always return to see the colours of the garden in your shadow, or reflected in your eyes, perhaps, or to hear of your latest follies and mad obsessions. #Quote by Anne Rice