Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

William Drummond

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.

Gail Kelly

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Cheyenne Jackson

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.