TuesdayJan 27, 2026
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
To pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw. Proverb in many languages.
Ah, there are no longer any children!
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
We die only once, and for such a long time!
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
One must eat to live, and not live to eat.
On some preference esteem is based, to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.
I will maintain it before the whole world.
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
I saw him, I say, saw him with my own eyes.
What the devil was he doing in that galley?
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
We should look long and carefully at ourselves Before we pass judgment on our fellows.
An erudite fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool.
You see him laboring to produce bons mots.
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
The road is long from the intention to the completion.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.
The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it.
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
All that is not prose is verse: and all that is not verse is prose.
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
It is seasoned throughout with Attic salt.
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
My Lord Jupiter knows how to sugarcoat the pill.
He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
I always make the first verse well, but I have trouble making the others.
A woman always has her revenge ready.
Things are only worth what one makes them worth.
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
One should eat to live, and not live to eat.
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