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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.
Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]
Hungry bellies have no ears. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Do not limp before the lame. [Old Fr., Ne clochez pas devant les boyteus.]
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he