TuesdaySep 01, 2026
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
One should eat to live, and not live to eat.
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
Things are only worth what one makes them worth.
A woman always has her revenge ready.
I always make the first verse well, but I have trouble making the others.
He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
My Lord Jupiter knows how to sugarcoat the pill.
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
It is seasoned throughout with Attic salt.
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
All that is not prose is verse: and all that is not verse is prose.
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it.
I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
The road is long from the intention to the completion.
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
You see him laboring to produce bons mots.
An erudite fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool.
We should look long and carefully at ourselves Before we pass judgment on our fellows.
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.
What the devil was he doing in that galley?
I saw him, I say, saw him with my own eyes.
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
I will maintain it before the whole world.
On some preference esteem is based, to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.
One must eat to live, and not live to eat.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
We die only once, and for such a long time!
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.
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
Ah, there are no longer any children!
To pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw. Proverb in many languages.
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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