Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

We need a reason for speaking, we need none for keeping silent.

Nicolas Chamfort

Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.

I don't think there's a problem at all with steroids in the NHL. I can say that.

Voltaire

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

Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

William Drummond

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

Alfred Jarry

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

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.

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.

Voltaire

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.

Madame de Stael

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.