Honore de
Honore de
admiration tedious
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.
artist literature force
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
funny marriage witty
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
love life marriage
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
flower heart intuition
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
literature virtuous-woman virtuous
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
art nature literature
What is art? Nature concentrated.
marriage wedding literature
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
leadership sports bad-ass
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
inspirational good-morning marriage
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
math numbers intellectual
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
suicide terrible
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
mom mother fashion
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
girl suffering pleasure
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!